Studies in East Christian and Roman art
Studies in East Christian and Roman art is a 1914 scholarly survey published in New York by Macmillan, written by art historian Charles Rufus Morey and collector Charles Lang Freer for students and specialists of Byzantine and early Christian art. Its plates reproduce manuscript miniatures and mosaics in line drawings and photographs, showing enthronement scenes, crowded processions, and narrative panels with arched frames and inscribed labels. A designer could draw on the stacked narrative registers, the arched architectural frames, and the rigid frontal figures with haloes as a model for sequential storytelling and formal hierarchy.
