Identifier: monumentsofearly00lowr (find matches)
Title: Monuments of the early church
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959
Subjects: Christian antiquities Christian art and symbolism Church architecture Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, MacMillan & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ian art can equal it in point of artisticbeauty and skill. The aim of the artist is more exclusivelydecorative than in the case of any work we have hitherto con-sidered. He has chosen what themes he pleased out of theearly cycle, and he has freely invented new ones to match thespaces he had to fill, grouping them as proved most convenient.We must suppose that for the historical scenes he alreadyfound some patterns in Biblical miniatures or in mosaics. We may notice in the first place that around the rim of thebox were disposed medallions of Christ and fourteen Apostles.The head of Christ is just above the lock of the box; he isrepresented as a lad, and several of the Apostles are not mucholder. The narrow friezes at the bottom and top of each panelcontain subjects from the Old Testament; the larger fields rep-resent chiefly subjects from the life of Christ. At the top(Fig. Ill) is Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, the betrayalof Judas, and the denial of Peter, Christ before Annas and
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