. The art teaching of the primitive church; with an index of subjects, historical and emblematic . goodcoloured plates of these paintings, with text. The workwas entitled Ueber die altesten Christlichen Begrab-nisstatter und besonders die Katakomben zu Neapel mitihren Wandgemalden (4to. Hamburg, 1839). See,also, DAgincourt, Hist, de lArt., &c. pi. 11, No 9 : andseveral photographs taken with magnesium-light by Parker, Esq. Their subjects include the usual peacocks, doves, andflowers. There is an Adam and Eve, beautifully drawn,and a curious picture of three female figures engaged in THE C


. The art teaching of the primitive church; with an index of subjects, historical and emblematic . goodcoloured plates of these paintings, with text. The workwas entitled Ueber die altesten Christlichen Begrab-nisstatter und besonders die Katakomben zu Neapel mitihren Wandgemalden (4to. Hamburg, 1839). See,also, DAgincourt, Hist, de lArt., &c. pi. 11, No 9 : andseveral photographs taken with magnesium-light by Parker, Esq. Their subjects include the usual peacocks, doves, andflowers. There is an Adam and Eve, beautifully drawn,and a curious picture of three female figures engaged in THE CATACOMBS AND THEIR PAINTINGS. 135 building a wall, illustrative of the Shepherd of are also anchors, dolphins, a jewelled cross, andanother with the A and w, and figures of St. Paul withSt. Laurence, of Oranti, of St. Januarius, &c. A pictureof Christ is on one of the vaulted ceilings, with theNimbus. Bellermann observes that this picture hassuffered much by being painted over, at a later date ordates ; and this remark applies more or less to all thesubterranean THE ROMAN AND LOMBARD NOAH.(CALLIXTINE CATACOMB.) (GATES OF ST. ZENONE, VERONA.)


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