Enciclopedia Cattolica

PLUTO

Volume IX · p. 986 · 1952

English translation · Testo originale italiano

PLUTO - P. della ricostruita basilica di S. Clemente (sec. XII) - Roma.
PLUTO - P. della ricostruita basilica di S. Clemente (sec. XII) - Roma.
Image from page 986
Image from page 986

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

PLUTO – P. of the restored basilica of S. Clemente (12th cent.) – Rome.

The braid decoration develops and flourishes further in the Lombard period (v. ENOCH. Catt., VII, col. 1519) in both the Carolingian and Roman contexts, extending even to the age of the Cosmati.

BIBL.: F. Mazzanti, La scultura ornamentale romana nei bassi tempi. In Arch. stor. dell’arte, 2nd ser., 2 (1866), pp. 33–57, 161–83; T. Rivoira, Le origini dell’architett. lombarda, I, Milan 1902, p. 335 seq.; E. A. Stückelberg, Langobard. Plastik, Munich 1909; G. Mendel, Musées impériaux ottomans; catal. des Sculptures grecs, rom. et byzantines, II, Constantinople 1914, pp. 471 seq.; J. Braun, Der christl. Altar, 2 vols., Munich 1924, passim.