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 155
in an historical setting is clearly intentional on the part of the artist in this mosaic, and intended to give to the Last Supper a symbolic interpretation. While the highly developed symbolism of the Hellenistic period of Christian art was breaking down at the beginning of the sixth century there… … Fig. 126. Rome : Catacomb of SS. Pietro e Marcellino, fresco. Eucharistic Banquet. old Eucharistic repast is figured in the guise of an historical event. There is a striking similarity in the mosaic, especally in the form of couch and the table, whose ends -ftJrm three rectangular panels across the…
Christian art and symbolism · Ivory carving · Art
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