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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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incidental intro-duction of Christian emblems,—as the vine in an apsidal pave-ment at Ancona (Fig. 120), andthe fish in the purely conven-tional design of the pavement atParenzo (Fig. 121). Inscriptionsin the pavement were not uncom-mon, and sometimes the namesof those who had contributed tothe expenses of the work werecommemorated in it. In anotherplace we shall have occasion to refer to a curious mosaic floorin a sixth century church at jNIadaba in Palestine, which repre-sents a map of the Holy Land, with the cities of Bethlehemand Jerusalem (Fig. 128) on a larger scale. Very few earlypavements are preserved; in Italy especially they were some-what contemptuously destroyed to make way for the Cosmatiwork which was popular in the twelfth century. The marble incrustation of the walls followed closely theClassical models. The general character may readily be under-stood from a single example which is very perfectly preservedin the church of S. Sabina at Rome (Fig. 122). In this case
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Fig. 1-21. — Section of mosaic pave-ment in the cathedral of Parenzo.Sixth centurv. 206 PICTORIAL ART the work adorns the wall space just above the colonnade. Itwas more conmionly employed for the lower walls of the aislesand of the aps(\ AVe may mention in this connection mosaic inscriptions, sincethey do not belong to pictorial art. Figure 123 illustrates the .>^NT~- :Z3

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