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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 405

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nen 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), Elijah ascending in the chariot, themessengers carrying the grapes of Eshcol, Daniel among… … the Magi (very frequent), the flight into Egypt, Christ healingthe paralytic, the raising of Lazarus, the entrance into Jerusa-lem, the Resurrection, and the Good Shepherd. Grants andsaints are frequently figured. The commonest animal symbolsare the fish, the dove, the lamb, the hart, the hare, the…

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

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