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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)

Marriott, Wharton Booth, 1823-1871 · London : Hatchards · leaf 37

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of these (not described by Dr. Northcotc) isprobably represented the Anniintiation, in which the angelGabriel (a human figure, without wings or other attributes,such as were assigned at a later period to the angels,) isseen standing before a seated female figure, and, withextended hand, addressing… … true, interpretation of this picture, recognises in it the HolyFamily, Joseph on the left hand (spectators left), the HolyChild, and His Mother; while the Star that is seen above * In the Cemetery of S. Priscilla. with absohite certainty, the true one.The interpretation above given is See Bottari,…

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