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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 390

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ar— which is farmore characteristic of them, and which seems to i11< 1 i<•;11*■ theiruse. Genre pictures, which were rare in the catacombs, wereespecially common upon the gold-glasses. The commonestthemes were representations of a married pair, or of a familygroup (Fig. 107), accompanied… … two candlesticks ; on one side, the Agnus Dei and the Apostolic sheep ; on the other, twoGospels), which spring from beneath the monogram of Christ. couple, greeted with this toast, appears in the midst of thereligious scenes depicted in Fig. 168. A similar toast (Dig-nitas amicorum pie zeses) was…

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