The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 214
hitectural massesthemselves. It had already been used, for example, on thefrieze of church porticos, and in one or two cases a narrowband of the mosaic had been inserted in the frieze of a cloister.It seems really inexplicable how the Roman school could haveleft the cloisters so long bare and cold… … Detail of Lateral! Cloister. relief work, both figured and ornamental, filling the arch span-drels and the under face of arches, and punctuating the richlycarved cornices. Possibly the initiator of the scheme was the foreigner, Peterof Capua, who, according to its long mosaic inscription,…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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