The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 333
SSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS here each figure is phiced under an arcade, with archivolts andshafts imitated from illuminated manuscripts, which also in-spired the patterns of the fan-shaped top. The tormented linesof the drapery sliow the descent from the Carlovingian type, astyle common among… … Apsidal Mosaics of S. Maria in Trastevere. standing and turning toward her almost in profile. On herright are S. James and S. John ; on her left S. Peter and S.Andrew in costumes that ape the classic. There is a curiousattempt to imitate solid masonry above the arcades that en-circle the figures.…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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