The Archaeology of Rome. Church and Altar Decorations and Mosaic Pictures

Excerpt from The Archaeology of Rome, Vol. 11: Church and Altar Decorations and Mosaic Pictures

This pope made one cemetery or catacomb and restored two others, and we have the same subjects and the same style of painting in all three. Other paintings, earlier than the fourth century, are not of religious subjects at all, and cannot therefore be called Christian they are merely ornamental and nothing more. Of mosaics of the sixth century we have so few remaining in Rome, that we must go to Ravenna to see the style of drawing of that period.

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