VI. Three Arches in the Roman Forum, carved in alabaster A. Arch of Titus, 4-1/8”h., c. 1880, alabaster on alabaster base. See Pricing. B. Arch of Constantine, 6”h., c. 1880, alabaster on black marble base. See Pricing. C. Arch of Septimius Severus, 3-3/4”h., c. 1880, tinted alabaster on alabaster base. See Pricing.
expensive than marble and considerably softer and easier to work, encouraged new subjects like those offered here. Unsurprisingly, reductions of the Arch of Constantine occur more frequently than those of other of the city’s arches. Our Arch
In the late 19th century, as production of Roman architectural mementos increasingly shifted to models carved in Italian alabaster from Volterra, south of Florence, the subjects of these souvenirs changed as well. Before then, few scarpellini undertook marble models of Rome’s triumphal arches. Alabaster, much less
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