Bennett, Charles Wesley, 1828-1891 · New York, Phillips · leaf 124
ded.This would be an abuse of the symbolic principle. For example, in EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTINGS AND MOSAICS. 99 Fig. 28, the antithesis of Moses smiting the rock, and Christraising Lazarus, cannot be regarded as type and antitype, sincethis woukl compel the use of too fanciful and far-fetched… … Fig. 28.—Fresco ceiling from Santa Domitilla, Rome. Orpheus in center. understood by the initiated but unknown to others. This, too,were to carry the symbolic principle to an unwarranted extreme. While there is a general similarity of technical treatment to thatof the contemporary heathen art, and…
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