The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 287
f a 276 CLASSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS central vase full of fruit and on either side a bird pointed towardit. Each of the four sections of the vault has a particular kindof bird — of which there are four. They are : ducks, partridges,doves, parrots. These birds are supposed to symbolize thefour… … Painted Decoration of House of John and Paul (SS. Giovanni e Paolo). undoubtedly have found in them the connecting links between S.Pudentiana and SS. Cosma e Damiano — strong-featured, heav-ily modelled, realistic apostles, richly shadowed in flesh anddrapery. The names were attached to each…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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