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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 274

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es. The Annunciationis represented on the arch of S. Maria Maggiore, and upon theend of a fifth century sarcophagus in Eavenna. In the lattercase the Virgin is represented spinning, according to one ofthe apochryphal accounts. On the other side of the samesarcophagus is represented her meeting with… … Fig. S4. —Virgin and Child, with a prophet, who pointsto a star, fresco in the catacomb of Priscilla. Middleof the second centurv. 246 PICTORIAL ART gests one of Raphaels Madonnas, and prompts the curiousreflection that in the long interval between that unknownpainter and the Italian artists of the…

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