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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 353

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uovo at Ravenna,(Fig. 37). This church is a monument of the Gothic rule, and though the decoration was executed by the Greek or Romanartists who were naturally attracted to the seat of governmentit affords a striking testimony to Theodorics enlightened pat-ronage of art. It was erected about the… … Fig. 138. —Part of a long mosaic frieze on the right wall of the nave of S. Apollinare Nuovo, enthroned between dal mosaics have been barbarously superseded by modernstucco and paint; but we have still in the nave the mostcomplete example of church decoration which has been pre-served to us from…

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