The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 318
but in the more human element of the compositions. It is worth citing a fresco in the old S. Clemente as illustrat- PAIXTIXG 307 ing these two rather disregarded facts. It is an Ascension,in which Christ rises in an aureole carried by four angels, whilebelow are the Virgin and the Apostles.… … Ascension of Christ. Fresco at S. Clemeiite. contrast between the extreme vivacit}^ and varied attitudes ofall the participants in the Ascension scene and the absoluteimmobility and frbntality of the two end figures is typical ofa general fact: that for several centuries (VII-XII) there weretwo…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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