The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 100
ROME AFTER THE GOTHIC WARS 87 Catacombs, where some of the early Byzantine frescos may be ascribed to him. Pelagius II (579-590) fell upon even more evil times, — when the city was besieged by the Lombards and abandoned by the Byzantine Emperor to its fate ; when (589) it was flooded by the Tiber… … Chair of S. Peter, in his Basilica, made partly of Antique Materials hy Artist of Seventh or Eighth Century. run by a second pestilence (590) by which the Pope himself was carried off. Perhaps the building most characteristic of these conditions is the lower and smaller basilica of S. Lorenzo. The…
Art · Christian art and symbolism
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