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 247
F LIGHT . 151 The representation of the sun as a yellow disc with a fringe of zigzags, of the moon as a crescent, of the stars as rosettes, is a subterfuge suggested by Nature herself, and it reappears among all peoples, with- out the help of a common art tradition. The Greeks also had already… … the oldest sculpture and painting is given as an attribute to Zeus. One of the great inventions of the inventive Apelles seems connected with this ancient symbol. He made the storm into the subject of a picture, not by means of personifications alone, but by so transforming and enriching those…
Art, Roman · Christian art and symbolism
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