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Excerpt from The Sepulchre of Christ in Art and Liturgy: With Special Reference to the Liturgic Drama
Representations of the sepulchre of Christ occur in art from the fourth century on.1 They began after Christianity had emerged from the cata combs and become a state religion under Constantine. In the painting of the catacombs the death and the resurrection of Christ were not de picted, although probably symbolically suggested by the resurrection of Lazarus. This Lazarus scene, with its little gabled temple tomb, was the most popular of all New Testament subjects in catacumbal art.
The sepulchre of Christ appears in scenes of the Entombment, of the Holy Women at the Sepulchre, of Christ's Appearance to Mary Magdalene, and, at a comparatively late period, in the Resurrection scene. Through out the earlier centuries, the most frequent and most important of these scenes is that of the Holy Women at the Sepulchre, and it is chie?y in connection with this that the forms of the sepulchre in art will be traced.
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