Roman art : some of its principles and their application to early Christian painting (1900)
Wickhoff, Franz, 1853-1909, Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · London : W. Heinemann ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 218
though still possible, buildings.* Vitruvius, who was himself a kind of incarnation of Augustan naturalism, lived long enough to see this change in style and regretted that architectural pieces should be invented according to the painter’s fancy instead of being copied as heretofore from real… … Fig. 48.— Wall Decoration from the Villa atjPrima Porta, restored (After Antike Denkmaler, Plate XI.) far-fetched ornament, and crowded in between with figures, some of which represent coloured statues and some actual persons, there is nothing left to distinguish this style from the last…
Art, Roman · Christian art and symbolism
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