The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 318
but in the more human element of the compositions. It is worth citing a fresco in the old S. Clemente as illustrat- PAINTING 307 ing these two rather disregarded facts. It is an Ascension,in which Christ rises in an aureole carried by four angels, whilebelow are the Virgin and the Apostles.… … Ascension of Christ. Fresco at S. Clemente. contrast between the extreme vivacity and varied attitudes ofall the participants in the Ascension scene and the absoluteimmobility and frontality of the two end figures is typical ofa general fact: that for several centuries (VII-XII) there weretwo…
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