Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 379
amps tothe costly works of art which have perished and are commem-orated only by the texts. No other elements of early churchdecoration and furnishing give such an impression of luxuryand magnificence as the devices for artificial illumination whichare described in early texts. It is by no means… … Fig. 152. — Terra-cotta lamp. the Classical analogies — e.g. the bronze and silver chandeliersfound at Pompeii — represent only very inadequately the moresumptuous works which are here indicated. Of the great co-)ona with its pendent lamps which illuminated the church ofS. Felix at Nola, Paulinus…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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