THE APOSTLES
VALUABLE PAINTINGS FOUND. (Australian and N.. 1 Cable Associati n.i LONDON, Alarch 8. The “Daily Alail's” Rome correspondent states : Professor Laneiaui, the eminent archeologist, describes a Christian Hypogeum recently unearthed at Rome, while excavating for a garage, as the most wonderful archaelogieal discovery of our time. 't he find consists of wall paintings of Saints Peter and Paul, and tlie other Apostles, which are much older than any other painting extant. Professor Lanciani declares that it is of exceptional interest, because it evidently
shows the Apostles as they really were, instead of in conventional shapes. The earliest representations of the Apostles found previous to this discovery date from the fourth century. These pictures are at- least 200 years earlier, though some archaeologists believe that they were painted in the actual lifetime of the Apostles. The artists display a knowledge of technique previously unsuspected. Tlie drawing is good, tlie pose is natural, and the faces are full of character. The figures of Peter and Paul are especially well preserved.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1922, Page 5
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