The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 234
SCULPTURE 223 natural evolution of style. Even in the Christian field it wasonly in the reliefs that sculpture showed a dogmatic tendency.It was inherent in the nature of statuary that it shouldbe the least affected by a change of faith, as its very sim-plicity makes it a form of art but ill… … j.|,i^kS,^l ^^^^■L iiliVil 1^ ^l^Jil^H JB^^ H^y/ -4 Bronze StiitUf ol S. Peter. HtatLie of Constautiue, J.ateran. of Christian statuary, the more than life-size seated figure ofBishop Hippolytus of Porto, author of the reform in the ec-clesiastical calendar for Easter, is almost an absolute…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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