Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 256
r, Noah between two sitting figures. These may suffice as examples ; it is only in thesimplest groups that we can venture to hope that weunderstand the motive for the selection of the subjects. There is the same difficulty in understanding thegrouping of the subjects sculptured on the… … jliunufniJTiiJTiinunTiJTiiT^^ CHAPTER XIII. SYiMBOLISM—contimted. The representation of individual persons—Representations of deceased ;oranti; oranti with saints — The so-called Madonna of theCemetery of Priscilla ; the so-called Madonna of St. Agnes—Funeral feasts—Personal emblems : fossors ;…
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