The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 305
292 CLASSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS tion of the enthroned Virgin and Child. This three-quarter head is of the same beautiful early Byzantine type as the fa- mous archangel of the British Museum diptych (c. 500), and gives a high idea of what these first frescos at S. Maria Antiqua may have been.… … Miracles of Christ: Frescos in Lower Church of S. Saba. (Seventh century.) the sixth century, into a Christian church under the name of S. Maria Antiqua, it received a wall decoration in fresco which was supplemented and renewed at short intervals during the following two centuries, especially…
Art · Christian art and symbolism
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