10-06-2006, 01:21 AM
Quote:Subject: Jesus Christ, reading a scroll (maybe the "Book of Life")?
Period: Roman
Date: 3rd Century?
Media: Fresco
Object: N/A
Provenance: Italy, Rome area, Catacomb ((Which?)
Name: ???
Website source unrecorded, long forgotten.
I appreciate help to more accurately describe this artwork. Pax vobiscvm, +r
Not likely an image of Christ at this early date, if the date is correct. More likely a philosopher's portrait. In the early christian context it represents the Holy wisdom or possibly one of the evangelists.
Travis
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