The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 295
revival of the thirteenth century.Nothing could be more fallacious. The courtly and ecclesias- 284 CLASSIFICATION OF THE MONUMENTS tical costumes since the time of Constantine had taken on thatrichness, whether in East or West, and, later, the use even ofspecifically Eastern styles does not prove… … Mosaics of Chapel S. Venanzio (left side), Lateran. prevailed among the wealthy and upper classes, and this stylewas, therefore, not foreign but national and naturally reproducedby native artists from life. In the same fashion that all such heavy and bejewelledcostumes have been foisted upon…
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