Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 392
d clear as they wereto the ancients, are almost without significance to us, and thedescriptions hardly avail to describe them. What significanceare we to attach, for instance, to the many names denotingvarious shades of purple; or to the terms descriptive ofdifferent qualities of silk; or to the… … Fig. 163. — Fragments of two gold-glasses. Daniel slaying Bel, Adam and Eve. to come to any clear idea about these matters so long as monu-mental evidence is entirely lacking. Painted representationsof clothing, hangings, etc., have constituted until lately almostthe only sort of monumental…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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