The testimony of the catacombs and of other monuments of Christian art : from the second to the eighteenth century, concerning questions of doctrine now disupted in the Church (1870)
ntended. In the third line, nPOAT€l is writ-ten in like manner, by mistake, for npoArei EXTERNAL ArPKAKANCK OF 1111: MONUM i;\T. ■43 representation, we may at least reasonably conjecture, suchas may be seen on this woodcut. For the existence oflater monuments, such as those here figured,… … monuments, executed at a time when Christian art was stillinventive, was adopting and modifying, for the expressionof her own ideas, the older types of art which she foundready to her hand. As at Rome the Shepherd and theOrpheus of earlier Greek art, had been adopted, and withslight modifications…
Catacombs -- Italy Rome · Christian art and symbolism · Art -- Italy Rome
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