The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 272
tion being based not on historic sequence, as was laterthe case in the basilical series, but on symbolism and analogy,after the fashion of the Catacomb frescos and sarcophagi,with even greater resources of fancy. All this, the most sig-nificant part of the decoration of this building, was… … Drawing of Sixteenth Century of Lost Mosaics in Dome of S. Constantia. architectural compartments, with the frescos in the housesand tombs of Rome and Pompeii, with the scenes on the Chris-tian sarcophagi and in the Catacombs, it will be quite clearfrom what mixed sources the mosaicists of the…
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