Author: SWIFT, Emerson H.
Title: Roman Sources of Christian Art.
Description: Columbia Univ Press 1951. Quarto publisher's cloth; xx,248pp & numerous photo illustrations on 48 plates, 66 illustrations & plans through the text. ¶ More architectural, with chapters on ancestors of the basilica, central and cruciform churches, byzantine building, arches, vaults and domes, the dome on pendentives - as well as coloured marbes and gold mosaic, atmosphere, colour and form, 'oriental' colourism, spatial concepts.

Keywords: architecture art history classical medieval byzantine Rome churches building colour decoration history