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The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)

Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 288

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PAINTING 275 This groin vault has a very schematic decoration on a gold ground. The centre is occupied by the Lamb within a rich wreath of flowers, which is itself enclosed in an ornamental square frame. From the corners and centres of this radiate … Figure of Christ in Apsidal Mosaic of SS. Cosma e Damiano. frame-like ornamental bands and triple candelabra forming eight compartments and intersected by four large garlands of flowers festooned from the central frame ; the flowers represent the four seasons. In each of the eight compartments is a…

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