The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 69
had been com-menced by Theodosius, finished by Honorius, and that underPope Leo it was restored and decorated by Placidia. Thenagain, the construction of the larger basilica of S. Lorenzo,basilica maior, under Sixtus, is attributed by the IJberPontijimlis to Valentinian; but as he was then a mere… … Interior of S. Sabina.(Early fifth centnry.) renewed. The treasuries of the churches were again filledwith superb works of the goldsmiths art. Though the politi-cal capital of the West continued to be Ravenna, the imperialfamily—Placidia, Valentinian and then his wife Eudoxia —lived for a large…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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