Note 20 — Chapter VI

The mosaics at Santa Maria Maggiore are assigned to the fifth century; those at S. Apollinare Nuova, Ravenna, to the sixth century. See Hemans, Ancient Christianity and Sacred Art.

For further descriptions of the mosaics at Capua and at Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, see Mrs. Jameson’s Legends of the Madonna. For an engraving of the Virgin and Child in the Ravenna mosaic, see Van Dyke’s Christ-child in Art.