- railing. It is made of a
yellow giallo antico marble frame with dark red
portasanta balusters. The
railing was
enlarged and the
turgid balusters were added...
-
features a
circular fountain with a
Portasanta marble basin and a
central diorite sphere.
Smaller portals,
framed by
Portasanta marble fasces, lead to elegant...
-
properties of the
local earth. The
marble from Chios,
called marmor chium or "
portasanta" today,
became one of the most
desireable and
expensive in the
Roman world...
- more
common marbles, African, cipollino,
giallo antico, pavonazzetto,
portasanta and
various granites,
porphyries and serpentines,
breccia di
Sciro and...
- three-bay
marble screen of
white marble supported on
quatrefoil pillars of
Portasanta marble and
inlaid with
Brocatello marble. The
organ itself was rebuilt...
- the
columns of the
peristyle of his
house on the
Palatine together with
portasanta and
pavonazzetto marble, and he also made
extensive use of it in his Forum...
- column-shafts in
different coloured marbles (giallo antico,
pavonazzetto and
portasanta) and with
tympana in
unusual shapes (triangular, half-moon and 'pagoda'-form...
-
corridor had a low dado of red
portasanta marble above which was a
moulding in
white luna marble. The
panels included portasanta,
giallo antico and porphyry...
