Early Christian iconography and A school of ivory carvers in Provence (1918)
Smith, E. Baldwin (Earl Baldwin), 1888-1956 · Princeton, Princeton university press; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 123
physical restoration of the paralytic.1 This dogmatic connection with the Baptism, which Tertullian2 plainly as- serted, Wilpert has detected in the frescoes of the catacombs wherein the scene of the paralytic is combined with other symbols and with the actual representations of the Baptism.3 The… … Fig. 91. Rome: Catacomb of Callixttjs, fresco. Healing of the Paralytic. his bed upside down on his shoulders and with two exceptions Christ is omitted. On the “Roman glass,”6 dating from the third to the fifth cen- tury, the scene is similar to that of the frescoes and Christ is only once…
Christian art and symbolism · Ivory carving · Art
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