Living water : images, symbols, and settings of early Christian baptism /

Living water : images, symbols, and settings of early Christian baptism /

This general survey of early Christian baptismal iconography and architecture integrates visual depictions and physical settings of baptism with textual evidence for its practice and purpose. An opening overview of pictorial art (paintings, relief sculpture, mosaics, and ivories) prompts questions a...

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Main Author: Jensen, Robin Margaret, 1952-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 105.
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004308961.

Subjects:

To 1500
Baptism > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian art and symbolism > To 500.
Baptisteries.
Fonts.
Architecture, Early Christian.
Architecture and religion > History > To 1500.
Architecture and religion.
Baptism > Early church.
Christian art and symbolism.
History.

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Call Number: BV803 .J46 2011eb

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