Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 271
mpire and the Church united in thesuppression of evil. It is strange to find upon so ancient amonument the expression of an idea which was destined to 242 PICT OBIAL ART become at once the greatest and the most disturbing ideal ofEuropean history. The Constantinian symbol was very early accompanied… … Fig. 82. — Coins of Nepotianus, of early Christian monuments. Strange to say, it almost asquickly passed out of use. It is rare to find it in Rome laterthan the fatal year 410. It was from the first a symbol oftriumph, and it ill befitted the sad condition of Eome after itscapture by the Goths. The…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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