Ecclesiastical art in Germany during the middle ages (1873)
Lübke, Wilhelm, 1826-1893, Wheatley, L. A. (Leonard Abercrombie), 1835-1895 · Edinburgh, T. C. Jack; [etc., etc.] · leaf 195
Crosses and Reliquaries. IS7 (Fig. 122), and on the sarcophagus of Probus at the end of the fourth century. Soon after, the cross was … at present set up, or Fig. 122. — Cross of St Ponziano. on the back wall. In most cases, in the earliest times, a plain cross sufficed ; but those with the form of the Crucified One — viz., cruci- fixes— frequently occur. The Romanesque period used great luxury with such crosses, which generally…
Church architecture · Church furniture
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