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 288
uoted by St Epiphanius, St GregoryNazianzen, and other writers of the fourth century \ andallusions to them, or even whole scenes taken from them,occur in the artistic monuments of the fifth and succeedingcenturies. Before that time Christian artists seem strictly tohave been kept within the limits… … Fig. 2,2-—Sarcophagus found avtong the ruins of an ancieftt chamber in San Callisto. CHAPTER VI. LITURGICAL PAINTINGS. Liturgical T T might have been thought that the impenetrable secrecy pam ingb veiy j^ which in ancient times shrouded the sacred mysteriesfrom the gaze or knowledge of the profane…
Cimitero di Callisto (Rome, Italy) · Catacombs · Inscriptions
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