Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . North fajade. South THK AKCH OF COXSTANTIXK PRINCIPATE OF CONSTANTINE 329 To the Emperor and Caesar FJavius Constantinus theGreat, the Pious, the Fortunate, the Exalted—inasmuchas through the inspiration of the Deity, and the greatnessof his mind, he, with his army, avenged the State, both onthe Tyrant and on all the partizans of his faction—theSenate and the Roman People dedicated the Arch adornedwith Triumphs. The grand structure, with its unsurpassable har-mony of proportion (P. Graef), was an abiding inspira-tion to the arti
Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . North fajade. South THK AKCH OF COXSTANTIXK PRINCIPATE OF CONSTANTINE 329 To the Emperor and Caesar FJavius Constantinus theGreat, the Pious, the Fortunate, the Exalted—inasmuchas through the inspiration of the Deity, and the greatnessof his mind, he, with his army, avenged the State, both onthe Tyrant and on all the partizans of his faction—theSenate and the Roman People dedicated the Arch adornedwith Triumphs. The grand structure, with its unsurpassable har-mony of proportion (P. Graef), was an abiding inspira-tion to the artists of the Italian Renaissance, wholooked upon it as the visible embodiment of the gloryof antique Rome. In the Sola dei Santi of the Ap-paitamento Borgia, the youthful S. Catherine pleadsbefore Maximian amid a classic landscape, dominatedby the Arch, which fills the Avhole background. In afresco of the Sistine Chapel, Perugino placed the Archon the left of the spacious Piazza, in the foreground ofwhich Peter receives the Keys. In the same ChapelBottic
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