The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 268
255 PAINTING But there were other forms of appeal to other classes. The first was the combined effect of the picture and of the explan- atory inscription usually placed under it, thus making the literary and pictorial arts unite in presenting a single idea. When S. Augustine delivered his famous… … Interior of S. Angelo in Formis. (Showing arrangement of frescos in basilica of eleventh century.) read; they are few so that they may be memorized by all. There is no need of a book on the matter : this apse is your book." The explanatory lines that accompanied paintings as a rule made it…
Art · Christian art and symbolism
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