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 188
a picture EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTING. !59 in the catacombs of S. Callixtus, a member of the Christian confession beforethe tribunal. In the division of the space to be decorated, the extravagantly fancifulkind of pseudo-architectural device which we found in the Pompeian wall-paintings has no place… … Fig. 42. chamber is kept up in the decoration of these Christian just as much as in thatof the earlier Pagan tombs. The arcoso/ia, or niched recesses vaulted with asemicircular arch, in which the sarcophagi are ranged on c ither wall, the ceilinthe wall-surfaces themselves w hen they are not too…
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