Roman Art: Some of Its Principles and Their Application to Early Christian Painting (Classic Reprint)

Fig. A. Trajanic relief (A rch of Constantine). From a photograph by D. Anderson Author sP reface to theE nglish Edition THE Imperial Library in Vienna possesses a series of extraordinarily valuable illuminated manuscripts dating from the earliest period of Christian A rt. A mong them are the fragments of the first Book of Moses in Greek, written on purple parchment and displaying on every page below the text a large picture remarkable for its age, its artistic merit, and its wealth of imagery. These pictures are among the oldest illustrations to theB ible that have been preserved. They were published by Lambecius in the year 1670, and again in 1776 by Kollar. These engravings, however, were inaccurate after the fashion of the time; for they reproduced the pictures only with considerable variations. A ccordingly, an edition which should satisfy modern requirements became necessary, and it was issued as a supplement to the Jahrbuch derK unstsammlungen des allerhochsten Kaiserhauses, under the title of Die Wiener Genesis herausgegeben von Wilhelm Ritter von Hdrtel und Franz Wickhoff The task was divided Vienna ,1895.
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