History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1880)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933, Colvin, Sidney, Sir, 1845-1927 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 214
andMoses with the tables of the law on Mount Sinai. The apse contains a grandpicture of the Transfiguration, surrounded by a border of busts of prophets andsaints.32 There was another order of mosaic pictures which has entirely disappeared EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTING. i83 , the secular and historical… … Fig. 5°- oi wall-decoration ; but we must be content now to know them only throughancient descriptions. In the CJialkc—the great hall of pomp of Justinianspalace—were depicted the victories of his army in Africa and Italy, conquests ofcities, and finally the return of Bclisarius, who, at the head…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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