The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 301
288 CLASSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS a short fringed tunic and anaxarydes which leave the legs entirely exposed. Further on the right is S. Milix in short tunic and chlamys fastened on the right shoulder. The corresponding figure on the left is S. Vincent in ecclesiastical costume. Both these saints… … Head from Apse of Lower Church, S. Saba. (Sixth to seventh centuries.) Of the same period is a scene in the baptistery. It is the Baptism of Christ, who stands in the Jordan up to his waist. His head has the nimbus, and to it, through clouds, descends the dove of the Holy Ghost ; over the right…
Art · Christian art and symbolism
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