The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 288
e theOrient, but in theheavy types ofthe heads rathera modification of antique Roman by the Gothic art of Ravenna.The substitution here of the statuesque for the early pictorialtype has been noticed by keen critics as an important innova-tion, and this mosaic has also the glory of being the… … Orante, Fresco in House of John and Paul. 278 CLASSIFICATION OF THE MOXUMEXTS The series may be opened with the most remarkable frescosoutside of the Catacombs, those in the house of John and Paulon the Coelian, turned into a church by Pammachius in c. 400.Several rooms, preserved below the present…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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