Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 282
sive of classictaste. Finally, it is to be remarked that the Christian sar-cophagi, like the Classic, were usually embellished by color orgilding, though the traces of it have generally quite disap-peared. Even ornamental sarco^ihagi did not require a figured deco-ration over the whole front. Very… … Fig. 92. An orans. Relief on ascreen. 254 PICTORIAL AFT the gymnasium. Other conventional patterns were borrowedfrom the designs which were common for chancels (Fig. 92).Room was usually left in the middle of the field for the repre-sentation of an orans, or a Good Shepherd, or merely for…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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