The church in the catacombs : a description of the primitive church of Rome : illustrated by its sepulchral remains . t the exalted imagination of Perpetuafigured Him to herself: in her dream she ascendedthe ladder that reached to heaven, and saw there aman with white hair, in the dress of a shepherd,milking his sheep. Tertullian also refers to theGood Shepherd painted on the sacramental cups: Pastor quern in calice depingis. J In the tomb of the Nasones, a heathen family ofeminence in Rome, may be seen, among many my-thological paintings, the figure of a shepherd witha sheep on his shoulders,
The church in the catacombs : a description of the primitive church of Rome : illustrated by its sepulchral remains . t the exalted imagination of Perpetuafigured Him to herself: in her dream she ascendedthe ladder that reached to heaven, and saw there aman with white hair, in the dress of a shepherd,milking his sheep. Tertullian also refers to theGood Shepherd painted on the sacramental cups: Pastor quern in calice depingis. J In the tomb of the Nasones, a heathen family ofeminence in Rome, may be seen, among many my-thological paintings, the figure of a shepherd witha sheep on his shoulders, and a crook in his hand,surrounded by the Four Seasons.§ What was in-tended by this heathen painting is not clear; but,by a slight alteration, the same composition was * Calpurn. Eclog. v. 39. f Eleg- «• u—12- J De Pudicitia, cap. 10. § Bellori, Tomb of the Nasones, plate xxii. THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTIAN ART. 257 soon converted into a Bonus Pastor by Christianartists. The change, however, was slow: the Panspipe remained for some time in the hand of theChief Shepherd, and the Roman dress was This painting, found in a catacomb chapel, seemsto be an imitation of the Naso picture, or perhapsof the statue by Calamis. The Pans pipe subjoined, is also found in thehand of a Good Shepherd, in the Catacombs.
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