File:Agape feast 01.png
Agape_feast_01.png (567 × 378 pixels, file size: 54 KB, MIME type: image/png)
Captions
Summary
[edit]The Symbolic Supper. Early Christian catacomb of Saints Marcellinus and Peter. Paleochristian art.
- "[In the Catacomb of Saints Marcellinus and Peter] Many cubiculi were painted by one artist, whose power of invention was rather restricted. He has but two subjects: the story of Jonah, and the Symbolic Supper. Of this last there are four representations, all reproduced from the same pattern, of which I give an example [the above picture]. A family consisting of father, mother, and children, are sitting around a table, upon which the ἰχθὺς or fish is served; the banquet is presided over by two mystic figures, Irene or Peace on the left, Agape or Love on the right. The head of the family addresses Peace with these words: "Irene, da calda!" and Love, "Agape, misce mi!" The last words are easily understood: "Give me to drink," the verb mescere being still used in the same sense in Tuscany, where a wine-shop is sometimes called a mescita di vino. The meaning of the word calda is not certain. There is no doubt, as Bötticher says, that the ancients had something to correspond to our tea: but the calda seems to have been more than an infusion; apparently it was a mixture of hot water, wine, and drugs, that is, a sort of punch, which was drunk mostly in winter. The names written in charcoal above the principal inscriptions in this illustration are those of Pomponio Leto and his academicians." (Rodolfo Lanciani, 1892, p357)
Picture and quote from the PD-old book: Pagan and Christian Rome, by Rodolfo Lanciani, published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1892.
Licensing
[edit]
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. {{PD-Art}} template without license parameter: please specify why the underlying work is public domain in both the source country and the United States
(Usage: {{PD-Art|1=|deathyear=''year of author's death''|country=''source country''}}, where parameter 1= can be PD-old-auto, PD-old-auto-expired, PD-old-auto-1996, PD-old-100 or similar. See Commons:Multi-license copyright tags for more information.) |
Original upload log
[edit]Date/Time | Dimensions | User | Comment |
---|---|---|---|
11 February 2006, 00:29:25 | 567 × 378 (50761 bytes) | Leinad-Z (talk · contribs) |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 16:05, 10 August 2014 | 567 × 378 (54 KB) | GifTagger (talk | contribs) | Bot: Converting file to superior PNG file. (Source: Agape_feast_01.gif). This GIF was problematic due to non-greyscale color table. |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
- File:Agape feast 01.gif (file redirect)
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on de.wikipedia.org
- Usage on eo.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fa.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on it.wikipedia.org
- Usage on vi.wikipedia.org