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Roman art : some of its principles and their application to early Christian painting (1900)

Wickhoff, Franz, 1853-1909, Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · London : W. Heinemann ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 33

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ENNA 9 humiliation the gate of the beautiful garden ; we again see them outside, received by a deeply significant figure symbolising the bitter days in store for them, and between stands the guarding Cherub before the fateful gate. We thus take in at a glance their last moments in Paradise, their… … Fig. 2. — The Expulsion from Paradise. From the Book of Genesis in Vienna (after Lambecius) pictorial narration. Just and unjust pass before us in two, three, or even four representations, if necessary upon the same scene, untroubled by the law of experience that only those events can be seen…

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