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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 325

An illustration from Monuments of the early church, 1901, leaf 325 — Fig. 1-21. — Section of mosaic pave-ment in the cathedral of Parenzo.Sixth centurv. 206 PICTORIAL ART the work adorns the wall space just above the colonnade. Itwas more conmionly employed for the lower walls of the aislesand of the aps(\ AVe may mention in this connection mosaic inscriptions,… … dedicatory inscription — a metrical tituhis — of S. Sabina. Itis especially interesting on account of the two female figures,under which one reads, EOLESIA EX CIRCVMCISIONE,and ECLESIA EX GENTIBUS. Over these personifications

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

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