The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 252
li.Mi,, ai,-. i m/.,.. Lorenzo. Here a plain sarcophagus is surmounted by a gableresting on columns and the recess is filled with a fresco; or^Ise four columns support a plain low canopy over the sarcoph-agus : but there was no sculpture, either figured or decorative.This type was developed and… … 242 CLASSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS encloses a fresco of the Virgin and Child accompanied by saintsand adored by the defunct. Soon after this, a leader of the Eoman school, Peter, son ofOderisius, made the first attempt to introduce both sculptureand mosaic decoration in sepulchral art, in his tomb…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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