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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 253

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oculus inS. Priscilla has upon it two loaves moulded in mortar, — evi- 224 PICTORIAL ART dently a fragment of this same theme. On this last monumentand on the epitaph at Modena the breads are marked with across, as they are also in several frescos which represent theseven baskets. On the… … Fig. 71. — Fut.-cu of tho third century, in one of the Sacrament Chapels, catacomb of C.nl-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…

Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

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