Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 128
e to refer with certaintyany of the mosaics in this chiefchurch of Byzantium to thesixth century. The large pict-ure in the tympanon above themiddle entrance to the narthex,showing a sovereign in adora-tion before Christ, was at firstsupposed, from its similarity tothe mosaic in Ravenna… … Fig. 52.—St. Agnes. Mosaic in the Apse ofthe Church of S. Agnese. The artistic monuments of the Byzantine Empire have not as yetbeen adequately investigated, and it is scarcely to be hoped thatmany memorials of the earliest periods of development will there 92 EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE…
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