History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1880)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933, Colvin, Sidney, Sir, 1845-1927 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 190
a picture EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTING. J59 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 arcosolia, or niched recesses vaulted with asemicircular arch, in which the sarcophagi are ranged on either wall, the ceilings,the wall-surfaces themselves when they are not too…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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