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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 280

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ostles were generallyrepresented. It was nec-essary in all these casesto distinguish them bytheir facial types. Theywere distinguished till acomparatively late dateby no conventional at-tributes: S. Peter didnot carry the cross, northe key, till the fifth century; S. Paul was not given thesword… … Fig. 91. — Bronze medal, SS. Paul and Peter. Thirdcentury. 252 PICTOBIAL ART distiuguislied by very different physical types, which becamethoroughly fixed in early Christian art, and have been substan-tially retained through all subsequent developments. Thesecharacterizations of the Apostles were…

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

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