Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1861)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 28
efy in heaps in their vicinity, almost in their midst; ason the slopes of the Esquiline, whence Maecenas, whose namehas become proverbial for critical judgment and poetic taste,excluded the dead-carts at last, and laid out his garden.Where then could the Christians store up their dead ? Theycould… … Inscription from the Catacombs, showing the sacred Monogram and Emblems.(Agincourt.) express in various ways, In somnio pacis, Dormit inDeo, Dormit sed vivet; Arethusa sleeps in God—sleepsbut lives. i 12 HALF-HOUR LECTURES. Thus the catacombs were gradually filled tier over tier ;and the first…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Fore-edge painting
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