THE ELECT OF THE LORD, THE NEW JERUSALEM AND THE GUARDIAN ANGELS – MOSAIC OF THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH DATABLE BETWEEN 817 AND 824 – CHURCH OF SAINT PRAXEDIS, ROME
The hieratic composure of the IX century apparel remains faithful to the byzantine tradition.
The women distinguished themselves by their plainly adorned hairstyles, by their collars (maniakion), and by the of the slant of the dalmatica decorated with round motifs (orbiculi), but the overall line of the apparel is straight and flowing and unites feminine apparel to masculine apparel, and the laical to the ecclesiastical, which, however, is characterized by a loose chasuble and by the sacred pallium.
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