Monuments of the early church . - attracted to the seat of government,it affords a striking testimony to Theodorics enlightened pat-ronage of art. It was erected about the year 500 as the Ariancathedral, and when in the year 570 it was reconsecrated forCatholic worship, it is not likely that the mosaic decorationsuffered any addition or any change. In later times the apsi-. FiG. 13S. —Part of a long mosaic frieze on the right wall of the nave of S. Apollinare Niiovo, enthroned between dal mosaics have been barbarously superseded by modernstucco and paint; but we have still in the nave the most
Monuments of the early church . - attracted to the seat of government,it affords a striking testimony to Theodorics enlightened pat-ronage of art. It was erected about the year 500 as the Ariancathedral, and when in the year 570 it was reconsecrated forCatholic worship, it is not likely that the mosaic decorationsuffered any addition or any change. In later times the apsi-. FiG. 13S. —Part of a long mosaic frieze on the right wall of the nave of S. Apollinare Niiovo, enthroned between dal mosaics have been barbarously superseded by modernstucco and paint; but we have still in the nave the mostcomplete example of church decoration which has been pre-served to us from the early period. It is not unlike the deco-ration of S. Maria Maggiore, only the relations are reversed; theBiblical illustrations, which deal exclusively with the life ofChrist, are arranged in small compartments above each of thewindows, and the procession of saints constitutes a continuousfrieze immediately above the colonnade. Between the windowsstand the white-robed figures of Apostles and prophets. Nothing could be more effective or more appropriate for the MOSAICS—S. Apollinare Nuovo 325 decoration of the clearstory wall than the long procession ofmartyrs which issue from the cities of Classis and Kavenna,and approach on the one side the enthroned Christ, and onthe other the infan
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