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The Stones of Constantine – Part 2
Recently on this site (see ‘The Stones of Constantine‘) I wrote about the way the culture, in books and movies, shuns original creation and plunders known properties from our shared past for inspiration instead, churning out new versions and remakes of everything from The Brady Bunch to Total Recall. And…
The Stones of Constantine
In the days of the later Roman Empire, when much of the skill to create sculptures and bas-reliefs in the original, classical style had been lost, the builders of that time used to construct their monuments using stuff –ornaments, statues and carvings– removed from earlier buildings. They would transfer these…
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