Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 96
upper gallery, open 74 HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIAN ART. both to the outer air and to the church. The westend is an especially fine composition. These Syrian cities give us also illustrations of theinfluence of Christian feeling in domestic architecture.De Vogiie remarks that the sudden growth… … From a house front, Central Syria. De Vogues Syrie Centrale, Plate XLII. the fact that on the greater part of the housesChristian symbols are sculptured, and numerousinscriptions of pious sentences and scripture texts,whose choice indicates the general exultation in therecent triumph of the faith.…
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