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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 315

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ve a sug-gestion of the traits which were to become so prominent inlater Byzantine art. It is not unlikely that the front of thechair was executed by Byzantine artists. Another handappears, however, in the historical subjects which adorn it.The back contained twenty-four scenes from the life of… … Fig. 114.— Ivory cathedra of Maxiiniamis, bishop of Ravenna. About 550 a.d. John theBaptist and the four Evangelists, SCULPTURE — Ivo ries 287 the life of the Virgin show the influence of the apocryphal Gos-pels on early art, and present for the first time some of thesubjects which were to become…

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

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