... everywhere. In this respect, Rome provides a very interesting and exemplary evolution of this typology. Roman palace type is not so articulated as the ones at Florence and in other artistic centers. In the ...
Silvia Leggio
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
The church of St. Francis in Cortona was built in the middle of the 13th century by Elias of Cortona (1180–1253), second Minister General of the ...
Elisabetta Scungio
Sapienza University of Rome; Vatican Museums, Italy
In Northern Latium (Italy), not far from Rome, there is a valley called Suppentonia, an isolated beautiful natural place ...
Roberta Cerone
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
The frescoes in the lower church of the Sacro Speco at Subiaco closed the complex architectural history that during the 13th century, from ...
... of images was imitated in many churches in Rome as well as in the dependent territories of the Holy See, thus starting the figurative tendency known as Renouveau Paléochrétien — as Hélène Toubert called ...
... monastery, where they came as the gifts of Tzars of the Third Rome. Among them, one should focus special attention to an icon of Euthymios of Suzdal the Wonderworker, probably painted by some muscovite ...
... greatness of Rome (H. G. Saradi). The landscape becomes a vehicle of a peculiar language which alters in style together with its epoch. Architectural backgrounds reach their expanded, fantastic forms and ...
... silver-gray color, which makes a number of images, such as figures of prophets, almost monochrome, thereby they call ancient statues to mind. Thirdly, the approach to the ornamentation of the church of the ...
... and were connected with the cult of Dionysus. In the Late Antique and Early Christian periods similar scenes were often depicted on the pavement and wall mosaics of Rome and East Roman provinces, as well ...
... of churches of the Late Antique period in Rome, Constantinople, Asia Minor and the Near East. Although it had its prehistory in the art of the Ancient world, it was mostly popular during the Early Byzantine ...