The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 335
CATION OF THE MONUMENTS here each figure is placed under an arcade, with archivolts and shafts imitated from illuminated manuscripts, which also in- spired the patterns of the fan-shaped top. The tormented lines of the drapery show the descent from the Carlovingian type, a style common among… … Apsidal Mosaics of S. Maria in Trastevere. standing and turning toward her almost in profile. On her right are S. James and S. John ; on her left S. Peter and S. Andrew in costumes that ape the classic. There is a curious attempt to imitate solid masonry above the arcades that en- circle the…
Art · Christian art and symbolism
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