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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Fig. 114.— Ivory cathedra of Maxiiniamis, bishop of Ravenna. About 550 a.d. John theBaptist and the four Evangelists, SCULPTURE — Ivo ries 287 the life of the Virgin show the influence of the apocryphal Gos-pels on early art, and present for the first time some of thesubjects which were to become popular in the Middle Ages.
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mm ivi ^ ^r Fig. 115.-The story of Joseph; example of carving on the back of the cathedra of Maximianus. On the sides the story of Joseph is related in ten scenes. Twoof them are illustrated in Fig. 115: in the lower scene Josephis let down into the well while his brothers stain his coat withblood; above, Jacob tears his hair at the sight of Josephs 288 nCTORlAL ART bloody coat. These figures show great rudeness of execution,but at the same time a certain barbarous vigor which looksmore like the forceful beginnings of a new art than the de- F^^ m ^^KlUK- ,.ijlipU;ijl;^lU W^^ Fk;. 11(1.- I\niy (iu-prl i.ivri- Ildiii Miiriiiu), now at Ravenna. -i\il; ir seventh century.Christ enihrDiuMl auiidst the Apostles, the Three Children iu the luniace, the story ofJonah, the healing of the blind, the raising of Lazarus, healing of a demoniac, healing ofthe paralytic. cadence of an old. They suggest the reflection that manyhopeful revivals of art must have been rendered abortive bythe frequent sup

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