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Christian iconography; or, The history of Christian art in the middle ages (1851)

Didron, Adolphe Napoléon, 1806-1867 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 372

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JESUS, FIGURED BY THE FISH. 357 with his fish ; an architect with the Corinthian capital which he loved; a fowler with a dove; a baker with a loaf; a shoemaker with soles, or a last ; one who sold by weight, with scales and a steel-yard; a labourer, a flail to thresh the corn; one who cut wood or… … Pig. 92.— SARCOPHAGUS OF A MARINER, WHO AFTERWARDS BECAME A SHEPHERD.* Sculpture of the earliest Christian period. Formerly when an individual died he was interred together with the objects that he had loved during life,— his horse, his clothes, his valuable things, even his wife, a symbolic. In…

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