Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 310
this, David with the sling. The heathen subjectsof Cupid and Psyche, and others, have been used to repre-sent Christian symbols. In sculpture, there are someremains of early Christian art in which the figures of Christand his Apostles are clothed in the dress, and workedsomewhat in the spirit, of… … Fig. 332.—Painting from the Cata-combs of S. Agnese. 290 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. jects, after the manner of the Roman Consular diptychs.These ivory carvmgs, that exhibit a true spirit of theantique in their design, are not to be confounded with thelater Byzantine diptychs that were executed in a…
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