Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 182
by Clement XL toraise it; but the column was broken in the process, andwith its fragments the barbarians of the eighteenth centuryrepaired the obelisk in the Piazza di Monte Citorio.The pedestal, however, was removed to the Vatican,where the curious may amuse themselves with studyingits sculptures… … COLUMN OF MARCUS AURELIUS. DECLINE OF ROMAN ART, 181 granite shaft—a cast of which is preserved in the MuseoChiaramonti—records that it was sent from Egypt byDioscurus, an agent of the Emperor Trajan, in the ninthyear of his reign. We may now return to the Cokmm of AureHus in thePiazza Colonna. It…
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