Monuments of the early church . t must be borne in mind thatwe have here to do solely withthe Old Testament characterswho were regarded as types ofdeliverance from death. Butthough we have this symbolismj^rimarily in view, we shall notneglect to consider other sym-bolical notions which were asso-ciated with these same is doubtful whether Adam and Eve properly belong tothis cycle, or what precisely their significance may be in Chris-tian art. They appeared very early in the catacombs of at Naples, where they were associated with the myth-ological decoration of an early cry
Monuments of the early church . t must be borne in mind thatwe have here to do solely withthe Old Testament characterswho were regarded as types ofdeliverance from death. Butthough we have this symbolismj^rimarily in view, we shall notneglect to consider other sym-bolical notions which were asso-ciated with these same is doubtful whether Adam and Eve properly belong tothis cycle, or what precisely their significance may be in Chris-tian art. They appeared very early in the catacombs of at Naples, where they were associated with the myth-ological decoration of an early crypt. But at Kome the sub-ject did not become popular till the fourth century, afterwhich time it was employed very frequently upon the sar-cophagi and upon the gold-glasses. The creation of man isrepresented but three times ; the best-known example is upon asarcophagus in the Lateran (Fig. 95). The theme commonlychosen is the temptation : in the midst is the tree with theserpent coiled about it, and on either hand stand Adam and. Fig. CO. — Orans with pirdlcd tunic andveil, fresco in the catacomb of century. PAINTING — Noah 205 Eve, endeavoring to hide their nakedness with a leaf. Verycommonly the man and woman are accompanied by the sym-bols of their respective labor: a sheaf of wheat represents thework of the husbandman, a lamb signifies the womans w^ork ofweaving (Fig. 100). In some cases (Figs. 95, 98) the figure ofChrist appears between them, allotting to each their appears sometimes upon the gold-glasses with hair richlydressed, and wearing bracelets and arm bands (Fig. 163).Several sarcophagi represent the exclusion from paradise. The subject of Noah appeared as early as the end of thefirst century, and it was frequently employed in the art of thecatacombs during the second and third. The earliest instanceis in the vestibule of the catacomb of Domitilla, where, how-ever, the only vestige of the picture which remains is the dovebearing the oliv
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