History of Early Christian Art

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History of Early Christian Art
Edward Lewes Cutts
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Cyprian says, " The ark of Noah was a sacrament of the Church of Christ. " f St Ambrose caused this subject to be painted in his church at Milan, and beneath it these verses — " Area Noe nostri typus est, et Spiritus ales, Qui pacem populis ramo prsetendit olivse. " It is remarkable that the ark is always represented, not as a ship or boat of any kind, but as a square chest with a lid, within which stands the single figure of Noah, or the two figures of Noah and his wife. A coin of the city of ...Apamea, on the Euphrates, of the reign of Septimus Severus (see p. 337), has^the head of the emperor on the obverse ; and on the reverse, • "De Baptismo, " vii. F Ep. Ixxv. 16.
SYMBOLISM. 2T9 just such a square chest, with a single standing- figure, and on the front of the chest the letters Nw, i. E. Noah. There was a local tradition that the ark had rested at this city. It would be obvious to con- clude that the Christian representation of the subject was taken from this coin, but that De Rossi maintains that the paintings of the subject in the catacombs {e.


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