The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 134
o andPetrolinus among his painters. ROME BEFORE AND AFTER THE GUISCARD FIRE 123 The new style arose through a direct study of the antiquecombined with an infusion of Oriental color sense. The de-based decorative work in low relief sculpture was abandonedfor plain moulded marbles and simple classic… … Slab of Clioii-screen at S. Maria iu Cosmedin, discarded in TwelfthCentury (c. 780). cippolino; also by geometric patterns of small cubes of theseand other marbles. Sparingly used at first, the whole centuryelapsed before full richness was attained and the splendor ofperfect mastery of moulded and…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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