The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 331
aic. The Koman schoolhad certainly omitted mosaic work from its repertoire for overtwo centuries; at first for lack of funds, later from ignorancealso. Where did l^aschal II find the mosaicists whom he em-ployed ? One can only guess. He could draw from Venice, ashis successors did, for S. Marcos… … Apse Mosaic of S. Clemente. and decorated the facade of S. Bartolommeo alP Isola with awork of which only the central half-figure of Christ remains;and the apse of S. Maria in Monticelli. The former Christ hasa flatness of effect and an inexperience of handling that arguenative talent. And yet, in…
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