Monuments of Early Christian Art
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780766139237
Subjects: Christian institutions & organizations; History of religion; Subjects & Themes - Religious; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Christianity - History - General; Religion
First sentence: THE spring of Christian art must be traced to the Catacombs, more especially the Catacombs of the Eternal City-those far-stretching and labyrinthic under-ground passages or galleries, interspersed with chambers in various forms, where the followers of the new faith buried their dead.