The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 291
ovo at Ravenna (c. 540). Fram-ing the scene at either end, but not strictly part of it, are twoother saints, Emerita, who was also buried here and shared thelocal honors with Felix and Adauctus, and Stephen. Thesetwo figures are immobile and face the spectator ; yet they arenot lifeless, ascetic… … dows at S. Apol-linare, or some ofthe figures in thegalleries at S. Vitale.In every fibre theybreathe the air ofRavenna in its mostHellenic proto-By-zantinism. Other paintings inthe same crypt arein the same style,but may be later,especially the singlefigure of S. Luke,which seems to bedated in the…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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