Indeed, the burgeoning Christian art, when it can be seen as distinctively Christian at all, is a sign that they really are making their way into society at large.

Bone chapels and their strange art In catacombs, crypts, and ossuaries, I’ve seen the ugliness of death transformed into something beautiful.

The catacomb resembled in its general form and arrangements those which were of Christian origin;—but here no Christian emblem was found.

The Art of the Roman Catacombs is an amazing journey into the subterranean world of early Christian tomb frescos. While Athnos does make distinction between the rudimentary plaster scratchings and ...

The catacombs “represent the concrete and legible testimony of ‘Christian death,’ seen by our early brothers as a provisory death in anticipation of the final Resurrection,” said Fabrizio ...

LiveScience: An ancient Jewish catacomb is at least a century older than the Christian catacombs in the same vicinity of Rome, researchers report.

ROME -- A Jewish catacomb in Rome predates its Christian counterparts by at least 100 years, indicating burial in the city's sprawling underground cemeteries may not have begun as a Christian ...

The Art Journal (1875-1887) Vol. 2, 1876 Traditions of Christian Art. Chapter I. Classical. The Catacomb Paintings This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section ...

The art that decorated Rome's catacombs often was simplistic and symbolic in nature. The Santa Tecla catacombs, however, represent some of the earliest evidence of devotion to the apostles in ...

CHRISTIAN CATACOMBS IN ROME About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of the third century, is also when we begin to get the Roman catacombs developing.