The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 216
l masses themselves. It had already been used, for example, on the frieze of church porticos, and in one or two cases a narrow band of the mosaic had been inserted in the frieze of a cloister. It seems really inexplicable how the Roman school could have left the cloisters so long bare and cold when… … Detail of Lateran Cloister. relief work, both figured and ornamental, filling the arch span- drels and the under face of arches, and punctuating the richly carved cornices. Possibly the initiator of the scheme was the foreigner, Peter of Capua, who, according to its long mosaic inscription, began,…
Art · Christian art and symbolism
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