The church of SMaria antiqua . ago in the Chapter House of Bristol Cathedral, forming the cover of amediaeval coffin. Probably it had, originally, no connexion with the church. Indeed itmust be older than the foundation of the monastery (1142), for its style recalls that ofAnglo-Saxon sculptures of the eleventh The scene appears to be complete ;and it clearly belongs to the earlier type described above, and in its general features isclosely allied to the picture in S. Maria Antiqua. It is reproduced in Fig. 12. Christ, 1 F. 31 b. The same scene appears in the Barberini Psalter (f. 44
The church of SMaria antiqua . ago in the Chapter House of Bristol Cathedral, forming the cover of amediaeval coffin. Probably it had, originally, no connexion with the church. Indeed itmust be older than the foundation of the monastery (1142), for its style recalls that ofAnglo-Saxon sculptures of the eleventh The scene appears to be complete ;and it clearly belongs to the earlier type described above, and in its general features isclosely allied to the picture in S. Maria Antiqua. It is reproduced in Fig. 12. Christ, 1 F. 31 b. The same scene appears in the Barberini Psalter (f. 44). Cf. Milanges, De Rossi, 278. 2 the well-known reliefs from Selsey in Chichester Cathedral, of which there are casts atS. Kensington. S. Maria Antiqua. 119 advancing from the left with one foot on the head of the recumbent Hades, raises by thehand the nude figure of Adam. Only one later feature is introduced, the Cross instead ofthe roll in the hand of Christ. Details of this sort may easily be interchanged, and in the. *S\ B. Boias and Co., Photo.] Fig. 12.—The Descent into Hell.(Sculpture in Bristol Cathedral.) same way in a fragment of a representation hi the scene among the mosaics of the chapelof S. Zeno at S. Prassede, though the general type is the later symmetrical one, Christholds the roll and not the 1 Garrucci, iv. T. 289, 2. It is not certain that the fragment belongs to the time of Paschal I. INDEX. SS. Abbacyrus and John, 14, 78, 79, S. Abundius, 32, 35 S. Adriano, Church of, 4, 104 S. Agnes, 94 S. Alexander, 32, 34, 36 Altars, 13, 36, 39, 76, 82, 88, 95, 99 Amantius, epitaph of, 108 Ambo, 89 S. Anastasia, 94 Church of, 7, II, 95St. Andrew, 57 S. Angelo in Pescheria, Church of, 43,Angels, 48, 49, 55, 59, 67, 83, 85Anna the Prophetess, 55St. Anne, 58, 81 n. 2, 82Annunciation, 83 Antoninus and Faustina, Temple of, 4,S. Antonio Abbate, Church of, 21S. Antonius, 95, 101, 113 n. Church of, 10Apostles, 57S. Armentise, 53S. Athanasius, 33St. Augustine, 1
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