Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 362
se of the heavenly Jerusalem, he finds addi-tional probability that the Jewish city and not Rome was chosen to symbolizeParadise. The careful perspective and the realism in points of detail make itclear to him that an actual site and not a mere ideal composition is intended. The two female figures… … Fig. 204. Mosaic wreath of the fifth century: dome of St. George, Salonika.{Hauies Etudes : G. Millet.) P. 374. represent SS. Praxed and Pudenziana, in whose lifetime and by whose gift theDomus Pitdentiana became the property of the Church. The architectural back-ground, according to his view, is…
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