Near this was a small theatre, from which the cipollino columns of the entrance to the Tordinone Theatre in Rome were taken.
It appears that the portico surrounding it originally consisted of cipollino columns, with composite capitals.
A capital or two of the same period were also found, a relief of peacocks drinking from a vase, and some antique fragments, a piece of a frieze, a column of cipollino and several of granite, and a few antique caps.
The ciborium has pointed arches resting upon Corinthianising caps and columns of cipollino carved in coffered patterns or spiral and zigzag channelling; a cornice of acanthus-leaves runs above the arches.
It appears to have had six columns (fragments of three of cipollino remain) and grey stone bases.
The ciborium has cipollino columns, antique caps, pointed arches, and Venetian dentil enrichments with marble inlays.
One remarkably fine variety called Cipollino marino is distinguished by its minute curling veins of light green on a ground of clear white.
In the churches and palaces of Rome specimens of all the varieties of cipollino may be found, taken from the old ruins, for the marble is not now worked in the ancient quarries.
They are micaceous strata; and thus the true cipollino is a mixture of talcose schist with white saccharoidal marble, and may be said to form a transition link between marble and common stone.
Two shaggy lions, in Cipollino marble, ornament the entrance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cipollino" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
