Monuments of the early church . ont and is employed with somewhatless delicacy for all the borders. The vine springs from a vaseguarded by two lions and is continued on the upper frieze;it is gracefully enlivened by all sorts of birds and beasts. Inthe midst of it is the monogram of MAXIMIANOS EP(iscopos)—a form of puzzle which was especially popular inthat age. The five figures in front represent the Baptist andthe four Evangelists. In the conventionality of the drapery,and in a certain exaggeration of the attitudes, we have a sug-gestion of the traits which were to become so prominent inlate
Monuments of the early church . ont and is employed with somewhatless delicacy for all the borders. The vine springs from a vaseguarded by two lions and is continued on the upper frieze;it is gracefully enlivened by all sorts of birds and beasts. Inthe midst of it is the monogram of MAXIMIANOS EP(iscopos)—a form of puzzle which was especially popular inthat age. The five figures in front represent the Baptist andthe four Evangelists. In the conventionality of the drapery,and in a certain exaggeration of the attitudes, we have a sug-gestion of the traits which were to become so prominent inlater Byzantine art. It is not unlikely that the front of thechair was executed by Byzantine artists. Another handappears, however, in the historical subjects which adorn back contained twenty-four scenes from the life of theVirgin and of C/hrist; some of them have been lost, and stillothers are scattered in various public and private scenes of the Passion were represented; the scenes from 286 PICT OBIAL ART. Fig. 114.— Ivory cathedra of Maxiiniamis, bishop of Ravenna. About 550 John theBaptist and the four Evangelists, SCULPTURE — Ivo ries 287 the life of the Virgin show the influence of the apocryphal Gos-pels on early art, and present for the first time some of thesubjects which were to become popular in the Middle Ages.
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