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 222
ROMAN ART *32 designs in the ornament of the third style# are evidently an echo of the Egyptian friezes with alternate lotus flowers and buds;t while in other bands of ornament the lotus flower is still distinctly visible. In connection with the bands of hieroglyphs § purposely imitated, both as… … Fig. S3- — Egyptian Lotus Flower Decorations (After Prisse d Avenues) we get whole friezes filled with scenes borrowed from ancient Egypt, such as in the Aediculum over the picture of Laocoon.|| We see, then, that in Alexandria, perhaps soon after the beginning of our era, a new style had developed…
Art, Roman · Christian art and symbolism
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