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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 82

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De Rossi, in common with ourselves, placesfirst in the whole series of these monuments {supra, p. 24),and our readers will be able to judge of the gulf whichseparates the Marian Rome of the ninth and all latercenturies, from the Christian Rome of the second. The conclusions which, we venture to… … THE MOSAIC OF XYSTUS III. (above, p. 371, as altered in the Eighteenth Century. [The nimbus of our Lord, and of the Virgin Mary, is of gold : that of the angels white, or light blue. Thedress of our Lord is white with a black stripe ; that of the Virgin, cloth of gold, with scarlet shoes.The outer…

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