Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 111
work is everywhere poorer and less artis-tic. The excessive zeal of Origen, who declared the admission ofsculptors and painters into Christian communities to be not per-missible, certainly did not result in their entire exclusion. But wefind nowhere a well-planned, artistic treatment, nowhere the… … Fig. 43-—Decorated Crypt in the Catacomb of Calixtus, called that of Oceanus. of the third century; and as late as the Council of Elvira in Spain,in the year 305, paintings of holy subjects (quod colitur ct adoratur)were forbidden. The fear of profanation may have somewhat in-fluenced this…
Art, Medieval
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