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Christian archaeology; (1888)

Bennett, Charles Wesley, 1828-1891 · New York, Phillips · leaf 168

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that of the earlierfrescos of the catacombs, and is more consonant with the jiaLiaiinotion that divinity should be represented under forms of highestjihysical perfection. Tlu! frequency of the recurrence of several Scripture scenes Burgon: Z,iir</ers//-cym i?;me (Letter xx), says tlat of… … 142 ARCILEOLOGY OF CHRISTIAN ART. is quite remarkable. On fifty-five sarcophagi whieli Bur!::^on exam-Frecjuency of inecl in the Lateran Museum, lie found the smiting of thethe rt-currcnce ^.^^^ ^^ occur twentv-tliree times ; the miracle of the of various sub- jects. loaves, twenty times ; the…

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