The contrast is famously illustrated in the Arch of Constantine of 315 in Rome, which combines sections in the new style with roundels in the earlier full Greco-Roman style taken from elsewhere, and the "Four Tetrarchs" (c. 305) from the new capital of Constantinople, now in Venice.
Sestava skupin likov v reliefih in pedimentih je kombinacija kompleksnosti in harmonije na način, ki je imel trajen vpliv na zahodno umetnost.