Recent Christian Progress Studies in Christian Thought And Work During the Last
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The work of Raoul- Rochette in 1826-27, as also that of Giuseppe Marchi in the early forties, was confined to matters of artistic or lapidary interest. The particular significance of a picture, the sa- credness of early Christian relics, or the precise statements con- tained in an inscription, satisfied all inquiries. As Lanciani has expressed it, "the topographical importance of discoveries was not appreciated. " ^ With de Rossi a new era begins. * "The method by which he worked, " says Frothi...ngham, "was even more important than the actual work he did. " His task was rendered doubly difficult by the methodless curiosity of his earlier precursors, for the wholesale removal of inscriptions from the catacombs made the work of systematic investigation exceedingly perplex- ing. But, in spite of the difficulties that beset him, de Rossi ' Till the last century the great work on the Roman catacombs was the Roma sotterarea of Antonio Bosio, published posthumously in 1632. ^ Padre Marchi wrote a treatise on the monuments of primitive Christian art: Monumenti delle arte crisiiane primitive nella metropoli del cristianesimo, Rome, 1844.
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