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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 404

An illustration from Monuments of the early church, 1901, leaf 404 — _J.. ? .J V * * ♦ •«• ♦ -f 1 It might, perhaps,have been a stole;and, at all events,the religious subjectswhich decorate itsuggest an ecclesias-tical use. The threeexamples which arehere given of theseembroideries repre-sent the raising ofLazarus, the Cruci-fixion, and MaryMagdalene with theangel… … Christ instructing a Fig. 175. — Reconstruction of a curtain — woollen tapestryon a linen ground. Fourth to sixth century. disciple, Christ heal-ing the blind man. Other Christian scenes which Forrer enu-merates in his collection are: Joseph the patriarch (of specialinterest to the Egyptians),…

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

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