The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859- · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 336
eeding1165, when some Greek Basilian monks, fleeing from their ownmonastery of Grottaferrata, sought refuge at the Sacro Speco,bringing precious objects with them. We have seen that Grot-taferrata possessed a school of mosaic and fresco painting, andsome Byzantine elements of these Subiaco frescos… … these scenes, onethat would connectthem with theEoman art thatafterward producedthe Cosmatus workat the Sancta Sanc-torum. The vaultshave a central figurein a heavily bor-dered medallion sur-rounded by eightfigures; those in thependentives beingentire, the intermediate being three-quarter figures.…
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