History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 184
d in the statuesof Hermes Kriophoros, i.e. Hermes carrying a ram on his shoulders as theprotecting god of flocks and herds. One of the supposed Christian statues in EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTING. *55 the Lateran is really an original Hermes of this kind. But in this instanceonly the formal part of the… … Fig. 40. country dress, generally with the attribute of the syrinx or shepherds pipe,and at his feet the crook, besides milk-jars, ami sometimes also lambs Kig. j.01 he constant repetition of such subjects was no doubt due to then agreeablecharacter and peculiar fitness lor decorative purposes.…
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