Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 299
ple of Ravenna.The Ravenna designs belong to the rising schoolof the mosaic artists rather than to that of the sarco-phagus sculptors of the previous centuries. There are examples at other places in Italy, atVerona, Tortona (with a mixture of heathen andChristian symbols), and Milan, described by… … 278 HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIAN ART, that many of these seem to have been executed bynative artists, and that in forming a judgment oftheir date it must be borne in mind that thefashions of Italian sepulchral subjects seem to havebegun almost a century later in Gaul. The Gallic ex-
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