Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 315
ical art, but of inferior merit. A third mode of treatment is seen in the mosaicsof St. Vitalis and of St. Apollinare in Classe {c. 549). THE MOSAICS. 293 To describe them without the aid of illustrationswould be tedious to the reader. We are able togive a specimen of their beautiful effect in… … Upper gallery, Church of St. Vitalis, Ravenna, historical pictures in St, Vitalis of Justinian andhis court, with the Bishop Maximinus (546-562)and his clergy, and the corresponding picture ofTheodora and her attendant ladies. The walls ofSt. Apollinare in Classe are covered with whole rowsof…
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