Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 239
e commonlyrepresented standing in the attitude of prayer amidst theflames of a furnace which is fed below by an attendant.Sometimes a fourth person, evidently the Lord, appears intheir midst. They are always clothed in the Phrygian cos-tume, which was used in Roman art to denote the inhabitantsof… … Fig. — Susanna and the elders judged by Daniel, fresco inthe catacomb of Callistus. Second century. PAINTING— The Magi 211 This brings before us a curious, but characteristic trail ofearly Christian symbolism; for these two subjects were no1,,nl\ compared, but in a certain sense confused, in art.…
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