The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 280
t of all the figures with whatever was belowthem. PAINTING 269 To supplement this mosaic, there must have been two otherscenes: a narrow band immediately below, in the hemicycle ofthe apse, and a composition covering the face of the apse abovethe hemicycle. Of the first of these, enough remains, in… … Apse Mosaic of S. Pudentiana (Apostles on left). we can turn to an even earlier replica of the same scene j^c.330-360) in a church at Naples, described by its early churchchronicler, where, beside the twelve seated apostles were thefour greater prophets : Tsaiah, with an olive crown,…
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