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Roma Sotterranea; or, Some account of the Roman catacombs especially of the cemetery of San Callisto, compiled from the works of Commendatore de Rossi with the consent of the author (1869)

Northcote, J. Spencer (James Spencer), 1821-1907, Brownlow, W.-R. (William-R.), 1830-1901, Rossi, Giovanni Battista de, 1822-1894 · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 228

An illustration from Roma Sotterranea; or, Some account of the Roman catacombs especially of the cemetery of San Callisto, compiled from the works of Commendatore de Rossi with the consent of the author, 1869, leaf 228
othave the advantage of his direct and immediate guidanceso entirely as we have hitherto had. The main object of hiswork is to give a topographical, historical, and chronologicaledition of all the monuments of each Catacomb. It is not atreatise on Christian epigraphy, nor art, nor symbolism,… … Fk;. 20.— The Good Shepherd in the centre of the ccilino- of one of the mostancient cnbicula in the Crypts of St Lucin.a. explained. CHAPTER 11. SYMBOLICAL PAINTINGS. Symbolism T) ^ Symbolical paintings we mean those in which the objectJ^ set before the eye is not depicted for its own sake, butin…

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