The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 32
TINE AND HONORIUS 21 tius^ in 315, appears to surpass the earlier arch of SeptimiusSeverus. This impression vanishes as we find, on analysis,that it lacks the unity of a single work and age; that it ismainly composed of the spoils of a number of earlier struc-tures; and that it is these borrowed… … Arch of Constantine. and several memorial arches torn down. The great attic re-liefs are from an arch of Marcus Aurelius or Lucius Verus;the medallions from some other early arch; the great battlescenes are from Trajans Forum. Even the lines of the archi-tectural framework, the main cornice and the…
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