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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 360

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-board containing books, abovewhich one can read the namesof the four Gospels, suggests the source whence he derivedhis. faith and his courage. In S. Aritale we have already studied the chief example ofthe mosaics of the Exarchate which superseded the Gothickingdom. The last mosaics of Ravenna were… … Fig. 142.—S. Ursicinus, bishop of Ravenna,mosaic in S. Apollinare in Classe. Sixthcentury. 332 PICTORIAL AliT have set for our study. The apsidal mosaics repeat the Apoca-lyptic themes with which we have become familiar, but withvariations which prove a decadence in thoughl as well as in

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