The Art Teaching of the Primitive Church

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Excerpt from The Art Teaching of the Primitive Church: With an Index of Subjects, Historical and EmblematicOne book or the other will generally be found accessible. Though these plates give no idea of the present appearance, or rather the gradual disappearance, of the buried frescoes, they may probably be accurate records of the subjects once represented. Cardinal Bosio's integrity was equal to his enthusiasm, and he had no polemical motive in his work of re-discovery. It is therefore generally assumed in this book, that his authority is sufficient to prove that such and such subjects (of often uncertain date within the first eight centuries) have been found in Christian sepulchres, whether the latter were of greater antiquity than their decorations or not.For modern text-books on this subject, Alt's "Heiligenbilder, " and Martigny's "Dictionnaire des Antiquites Chretiennes, " will supply the reader with ample information, and open to him a vast range of reference for more extended study, which is sure to increase in interest, as the connection between early art, archaeology, and history is better understood.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.