Ance 19-09-24
THE NEW PEOPLE. Painting from the Cemetery of St. Priscilla in the Catacombs, Rome. Wilpert, Die Katakombenge- mälde und ihrer alten copien (Herder, Freiburg i.B)rnrnThe art of the catacombs is the first outward manifestationrnrnof Christian culture, and shows in a remarkable way how thernrnexternal forms of the old Roman-Hellenistic culture werernrnassimilated and modified by the new spiritua…
AFTER a century and more of historical specialism and archaeological research, of the minute criticism of docu- ments and sources, the time has come when it is becoming possible to reap the fruits of this intensive labour, and to undertake some general synthesis of the new knowledge of man's past that we have acquired. It is