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== Brief history of Christian paintings==

== Brief history of Christian paintings==

The early Christian paintings were the wall frescoes of the Catacombs of [[Rome]]. ''The earliest works tend to employ Christian symbols (e.g. bread, wine, or the fish symbolizing Jesus)... The Early Christian period also includes the earliest known European illuminated manuscripts.''  [http://essentialhumanities.net/paint2_3.html]

The early Christian paintings were the wall frescoes of the Catacombs of [[Rome]]. ''The earliest works tend to employ Christian symbols (e.g. bread, wine, or the fish symbolizing Jesus)... The Early Christian period also includes the earliest known European illuminated manuscripts.''  [http://essentialhumanities.net/paint2_3.html] ''The imagery of the catacombs consisted of cryptic, if not hermetic, symbols of the salvation of the soul: orans figures, parable incidents, Old Testament parallels such as Noah in the Ark. '' [http://www.oldandsold.com/articles04/article1347.shtml]