Monuments of the early church . ompaniment of the narrative andreflect its most minute incidents. The roll contains twenty-three illustrations; one cannot say separate illustrations, forthey are not framed apart, but are so closely continuous thatthey constitute, as it were, a moving picture. For example,in Fig. 145 we have the story of Joshuas dealings with themen of Gibeon (Josh. ix. 3-27). Above at the left are thefraudulent ambassadors starting out with their old sacks andrent wine-skins and battered raiment, as though they had 336 PICTOBIAL ABT journeyed from a far country (vv. 3-5). Belo
Monuments of the early church . ompaniment of the narrative andreflect its most minute incidents. The roll contains twenty-three illustrations; one cannot say separate illustrations, forthey are not framed apart, but are so closely continuous thatthey constitute, as it were, a moving picture. For example,in Fig. 145 we have the story of Joshuas dealings with themen of Gibeon (Josh. ix. 3-27). Above at the left are thefraudulent ambassadors starting out with their old sacks andrent wine-skins and battered raiment, as though they had 336 PICTOBIAL ABT journeyed from a far country (vv. 3-5). Below they are pre-senting themselves to Joshua and the men of Israel (vv. 5-15);the city of Gibeon is personified above by the reclining figurewith the horn of plenty. Between this and the next scenethere is an interval of three days; Joshua and the host havealready reached the city of Gibeon (which appears on theright), and discovered the fraud of the ambassadors; he callsthem before him and decrees the perpetual servitude of the. The diverse fortune of Pharaohs butler and baker. Fig. U7. — Miniatures from the Vienna Gibeonites to the Children of Israel (vv. 16-27). J^igure146 represents the return of Joshuas messengers from Ai(Josh. vii. 3). The illustration of a codex was manifestly more convenient;the miniatures might occupy a whole page, or be placed belowthe text, but in any case they constituted each of them a dis-tinct and separate subject, and the artist was at liberty toselect from the narrative such themes as pleased his fancy orsuited his talent. The mosaics illustrating Genesis and Joshua in S. MariaMaggiore remind one of the Joshua Roll, but they are distin- MIXIATURES 337 guislied from it by the fact that they are framed in separatepanels and each scene developed for itself. They follow theincidents of the narrative as closely and as undiscriminatinglyas the Joshua E-oll, but they could only have been copied fromthe miniatures of a codex. The Vienna Genesis is an
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