Inside Out Library · Explore

The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)

Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 250

An illustration from The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance, 1908, leaf 250
s. The cloister was erected between 1220 and 1230 byone of the greatest masters of the Roman school, Vassallettusor Vassalletto. His feeling for the round is shown not only inthe sphinxes that flank the entrances, and are clear reproduc-tions of the antique, but in some heads that project from the… … Detail of frieze of Lateran Cloister by Vassaletto. drals {e.g. Keims) and others by Niccola Pisano and in the pul-pit at Ravello. They are mostly youthful heads, types ofpages and young aristocrats, with an occasional monk and oldwoman. Delicately silhouetted in firm and well-marked planes^ 240…

Art · Christian art and symbolism

Internet Archive · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance

More like this