Roma sotterranea : or some account of the Roman catacombs, especially of the cemetery of San Callisto (1869)
Northcote, J. Spencer (James Spencer), 1821-1907, Brownlow, W. R · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 337
lies the loaves and fishes. In the centre, however, is a group which has somewhat puzzled the learned. Bosio makes the old man under the tree to be Moses giving the law to the people, and the head which appears between the branches of the tree to be that of Zaccheus climbing up in order to see Our… … Fig. 36. — Snrco/'/ing!ts in Lnterait M nsfiim of fourth or fifth coit/ny. divided into five compartments by twisted Corinthian pillars, the pediments above wliich are decorated with scenes from the vintage. In the central compartment is the labannjh surrounded with a crown of immortality, and…
Catacombs · Christian art and symbolism
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