Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 137
lest and most perfectof those still extant in Rome ; the arch of Septimius Sev-erus in the Forum (203 a.d.) and that of Constantine (330A.D.) near the Colosseum, are more sumptuous but lesspure in detail. The last-named was in part enriched withsculptures taken from the earlier arch of Trajan.… … FIG. 63.—AKCH OF CONS TANTINE. (From model in Metropolitan Museum, New York.) for the columns and broken entablatures on which theyrest. Memorial columns of colossal size were erected byseveral emperors, both in Rome and abroad. Those of Trajan and of MarcusAurelius are still stand-ing in Rome in…
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