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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 245

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6 PICTOBIAL Airr dent to the scene—as in the visit of the Magi, etc. It may besaid, too, that in the representations of the miracles his pres-ence was equally incidental; it was required to determine thesubject, jusl as the presence of God in the Old Testament won-ders was symbolized by the hand… … Fig. 69. — The Good Shepherd, fresco decoration of a ceiling in the catacomb of Petrus andMarcellinus. Third century. under the figure of a very young man, beardless, and withoutany such marked personal traits as were early ascribed toPeter and Paul. The figure of Christ is, in fact, to be…

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