Out-of-door memorials : mausoleums, tombs, headstones and all forms of mortuary monuments. (1898)
Tiffany Studios · The Company, New York · leaf 44
MEICUS, THERE IS NONE MORE INTEREST-ING AND ARTISTIC THAN THAT IN MEMORY OFDEXILEOS ERECTED IN THE YEAR - 394 B. C. THE MAUSOLEUMS OF C/ECILIA METELLA ON THEAPPIAN WAY, SO ELOQUENTLY DESCRIBED IN THE4 CANTO OF THE CH1LDE HAROLD, IS WELL PRE-SERVED AND IS A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OFROMAN WORK 63 B. C.… … THE MAUSOLEUM OF THE EMPEROR HADRIANNOW THE CASTLE OF S. ANGELO, ON THE BANKOF THE TIBER, A MASSIVE CIRCULAR TOWER 987FEET IN CIRCUMFERENCE, WAS COMMENCED BYHADRIAN AND COMPLETED BY ANTONINUS PIUS 161 A. D. THE GOTHIC TOMBS OF THE SCALIGERS ATVERONA, ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE EXISTINGMORTUARY…
