Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 253
culus inS. Priscilla has upon it two loaves moulded in mortar, — evi- 224 PICTORIAL ART (Icntly a fragment of this same theme. On this last monumentand on the epitaph at Modena the breads are marked with acioss, as they are also in several frescos which represent theseven baskets. On the… … Fig. 71.—Fresco of the third century, in one of the Sacrament Chapels, catacomb of Cal-listus. Christ, clad in the philosophers pallium, consecrates the fish and bread (symbolof the Eucharist); an orans stands beside the tripod. theme have the breads marked with the Constantinian mono-gram. But we…
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