The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 30
ilan 1 y Maxentius to beautify the new temporary capital. THE CITY OF CONSTANTINE AND HONORIUS 19 The most impressive and colossal of existing monuments isthe so-called basilica of Constantine; and the Emperor addedanother to the series of imperial thermae already erected byTitus and Trajan,… … Basilica of Constantine, restored. his seated statue in the basilica, show that Eome was stillthe main centre of the imperial school of art, such as it was,even though the city had ceased to have any political importance.The basilica is, with the Colosseum, the most impressiveruin in or near the…
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