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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 360

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by afiery gridiron. An open cup-board containing books, abovewhich one can read the namesof the four Gospels, suggestshis faith and his courage. In S. Vitale we have already studied the chief example ofthe mosaics of the Exarchate which superseded the Gothickingdom. The last mosaics of Ravenna were… … Fig. 142.—S. Ursicinus, bishop of Ravenna,mosaic in S. Apollinare in Llasse. 6ixiacentury. the source whence he derived 332 Pier OB IAL ABT have set for our study. The apsidal mosaics repeat the Apoca-lyptic themes with which we have become familiar, but withvariations which prove a decadence in…

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

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