The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 97
en by a brief historic survey of the 86 HISTORICAL SKETCH artistic activity of the Popes during the two ceuturies beforethe Carlovingian revival. Popes Pelagius I (556-561), John III (561-574) and Bene-dict I (575-579) have left no certain monumental traces. Onegreat church, however, was put up by… … Ancieut Architraves, Capitals, and Shafts used iii Reeoiistriicliiig S. l.urenzij(Pelagius II). largest and most sumptuously decorated in the city. Builtdoubtless with imperial funds and before the Lombard invasion,it was probably the work of Byzantine engineers and artistsfrom Ravenna. Perhaps to…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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