""The Monuments of Christian Rome: From Constantine to the Renaissance"" by Arthur L. Frothingham is a comprehensive guide to the Christian art and architecture of Rome from the early Christian period to the Renaissance. The book is divided into three parts, covering the fourth to the eighth centuries, the ninth to the twelfth centuries, and the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. The first part of the book focuses on the early Christian period, including the construction of the first churches in Rome and the development of Christian art. The second part covers the period of medieval Rome, including the construction of the great basilicas of Rome and the development of Romanesque and Gothic art. The third part covers the Renaissance period, including the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica and the emergence of the High Renaissance style. Throughout the book, Frothingham provides detailed descriptions and analysis of the major monuments of Christian Rome, including churches, basilicas, chapels, and other religious buildings. He also discusses the history and cultural context of each monument, as well as the artistic and architectural techniques used in their construction. Overall, ""The Monuments of Christian Rome"" is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of Christian art and architecture in Rome, and a valuable guide for visitors to the city.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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The complexity of Rome is at once an allurement and a source of despair. As a growing modern capital it turns its back upon its past, and as a historic museum it bristles with periods and styles so varied they cannot be set forth with the lucidity that makes the art of A thens comparatively easy to grasp. The present epitome of one group of these phases reflects the artistic life of Rome as a Christian city and the general features of its history and culture from the day when the Emperor Constantine stopped the era of persecution and raised the Christian Labarum as his standard, until that when the mediaeval Papacy, after a glorious history, was forced to abdicate its world-power and to leave Rome for A vignon, reducing the city to the lowest ebb of desolation. When Rome rises again under the Popes of the Renaissance, it will not be by its own efforts or with its peculiar traits unchanged. The new Rome will be a composite picture reflecting the handiwork of Tuscans, of Lombards and of Umbrians: a Rome at war with itself, tearing frantically at its own historic vitals and every day making a mock and travesty of its past. Rome of the Romans is no more. This old Rome from Constantine to the Renaissance is itself a varied pageant. For nearly two centuries after his death it remained a decapitalized, unambitious Rome, pauperized by imperial bounty, drunk with corruption, hypnotized by vile plays, indifferent to apostles, occupied with a round of baths, games and gossip, clogged with a surfeit of villas, fine raiment and delicate eating, careless of the crumbling away of the ancient world about it under the blows of the barbarians.
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