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. 1906 Excerpt: ... of the departed were, in the art of the catacombs, generally represented in this attitude (Figs. 85, 124). We can readily understand why the Old Testament characters which are taken as examples of divine deliverance were also commonly represented in the posture of prayer. The Scripture itself furnished the suggestion, ...
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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. 1906 Excerpt: ... of the departed were, in the art of the catacombs, generally represented in this attitude (Figs. 85, 124). We can readily understand why the Old Testament characters which are taken as examples of divine deliverance were also commonly represented in the posture of prayer. The Scripture itself furnished the suggestion, recording the prayer of Jonah and the song of the Three Children. Noah, upon his deliverance, immediately offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving; and the attitude of prayer was no less appropriate to Isaac delivered from sacrifice, to Daniel among the lions, and to Susanna accused by the elders. But though we may apply the name "orans" in a general sense to portraits of the deceased and to representations of Biblical characters, it is used more specifically to denote the artistic symbol of the souls of the faithful departed. It is not generally represented by a female figure, without regard to the sex of the deceased. So, for example, we find often a female figure painted above a tomb when the inscription denotes a man. An early lead medal in the Vatican Museum represents the martyrdom of S. Lawrence and depicts a female figure rising from the body of the saint to receive the martyr's crown. In the Acts of SS. Petrus and Marcellinus: "The executioner testified that he saw their souls issue from their bodies in the form of young virgins, who were adorned with gold and gems and clad in shining garments, and were carried to heaven by the hand of angels." It is impossible with any candor to Fig. 64.--Orans in palla, fresco in the crypt of Lucina. Second century. always possible to draw a sharp line of distinction between the portrait orans and this symbolical abstraction. Whole families, men and women and children, were sometimes...
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Good+; No jacket. 1906 The Macmillan Company. Reprint of 1901 edition. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners bumped and lightly rubbed. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Two imprinted bookplates for the same person on front endpaper. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Three pages have a one-quarter-inch tear at the top edge, in the margin. 432 pages. No dust jacket. Series: Handbooks of Archaeology and Antiquities. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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