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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esenting the Good Shepherd, inFig. 162, and from innumerable examples of the same sortit is evident that the religious as well as the secular represen-tations were meant to adorn the glasses which were used for merefamily feasts. They were doubtless prepared as gifts for wed- 362 MINOR ARTS dings, birthdays, and all sorts of family festivals. A commontoast was, Take a crown, drink, and live. Crowns of leavesor flowers were commonly used at Christian feasts, notwith-standing their pagan associations. Figure 1G7 represents asmall* figure placing wreaths upon the heads of a husband andwife; such a tigure is sometimes designated by name in theinscription as Christus. Figure 169 hails with a toast an over-seer, Dsedalius, your hope (is in Christ). Drink. Live. The commonest subjects of all are the images of popularEoman saints. Maria appears frequently between Petrus andPaulus; and among the Roman martyrs—the Apostles excepted— Agnes was by far the most popular. Eighty out of the three
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Fig. 162. — Fragments of three gold-glasses of the third or fourth century. The Good Shep-herd in the different attitudes. hundred glasses published by Garrucci contain representationsof SS. Peter and Paul. When we think of the Christianagapes, and above all of the anniversary feasts in memory ofthe martyrs, we can realize how many occasions of a more orless religious nature the Christians had to use drinking glasses,and we can understand the selection of such ornament. THE TEXTILE ART Of all the arts, it is the textile which stands in the closestand most necessary relation to human life. It is a matter ofcourse that in Classical and in early Christian literature thereare innumerable references to it; there are names denoting thetexture and color of textile stuff, descriptions more or lessdetailed of its decoration, and indications of its use. But TEXTILE ART 363 such fabrics were among the most perishable of all the mate-rials used in the arts; and without the preservation of thest

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