This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...in the catacombs has never been absolutely abandoned. It was repeated during the long period of Byzantine Art which followed, although the mosaic workers were decorating the basilicas with the true Likeness. Michael Angelo returned to it even while Raphael and Correggio, and Titian, and Da Vinci were looking straight ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...in the catacombs has never been absolutely abandoned. It was repeated during the long period of Byzantine Art which followed, although the mosaic workers were decorating the basilicas with the true Likeness. Michael Angelo returned to it even while Raphael and Correggio, and Titian, and Da Vinci were looking straight into the Master's face: and in our own day at least one great painter clings to it still. Of these I shall give account in their proper order. But the conventional type neither is, nor does it for a moment pretend to be, the Likeness of our Blessed Lord. A GOLDEN LINK The Likeness existed before the text of the fourth Gospel was known to the Christian community in Rome. IT is impossible to crowd into the brief space of this volume all the evidence that bears upon the subject and tells the same story. There is, however, one more point too interesting to be omitted. To find pictures and relics in the catacombs is not enough to prove that they date from the first age of the Church. Some portions of the catacombs are of course much earlier than other portions. It is true that, speaking generally, the graves of the martyrs are the graves of those who suffered through the long period of the ten persecutions, beginning almost immediately after S. Paul's last visit to Rome, and ending about the close of the third century. But after the establishment of the Christian Faith the Christians still resorted to the catacombs, and though some of the galleries were closed in the fourth century, there are many relics to be found of a date later even than that. These, however, may be dismissed from the argument. From the time when the Likeness of Christ was emblazoned on the walls of the basilicas, in the sight of all men, it is a matter of course that those who ...
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