The Monuments of Christian Rome From Constantine to the Renaissance, Issue 6920
The Monuments of Christian Rome From Constantine to the Renaissance, Issue 6920
Arthur Lincoln Frothingham
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A Prophet, by Aniolfo. nearly all the works of art in the old basilica when it was torn down. Only the recumbent statue was saved and transferred to decorate the tomb of the Savelli family (to which the Pope belonged) in the church of Aracoeli. To Arnolfo is to be credited another conspicuous novelty, in another of the great basilicas, S. Maria Maggiore. This basilica was called ad prcesepe, from containing the relic of the Manger of Bethlehem. To provide a fitting shrine for it, Pope Nicholas ...IV (1288-1292) erected a chapel which is the prototype of the sacred tableaux in the round, of marble, terracotta or wood carving, so numerous in Northern Italian, such as those of Modena and Varallo. This little chapel, now moved under- ground and transformed, is occupied by a life-size group of Digitized by LjOOQIC 248 CLASSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS the Magi adoring the Infant Christ in the arms of the Virgin. At its entrance, over the door, two small figures of prophets in high relief occupy the pendentives.
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