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 197
were points <>! resemblance betweenthe antique conception of Zeus and the Christian idea of tin- Deity J and thesewill not have failed to influence the embodiments of ait. Still, any dn>>!transference of the type of Zens to Christ must be considered quite excep-tional. Witness the… … EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTING. 169 rather feel that some type of an ancient philosopher has been taken for a model.The bearded Christ occurs more frequently in the fifth century ; but the repre-sentation continues to fluctuate until at last the classic cast of features disappears,and a severe and solemn…
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