The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 273
vation, an uninterrupted line of the earliest Chris- 262 CLASSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS tian mosaics in existence, cut up into a series of eleven dis-connected compositions, not only separately framed, but eachone sometimes subdivided into many sections. The most interesting and the freest in… … Mosaic of Annular Vault at S. Constantia. istic, looks down from an aureole of the grape — a spiritualizedgod of the vine, For the scene is the only one to which ameaning can be attached, a scene with unity. Among thevines, where birds are pecking, the naked genii, such as we seeon the contemporary…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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