Note 19 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
My authority on these frescos is Charles I. Hemans, who states (page 70 of Ancient Christianity and Sacred Art) that “conjecture has assumed antiquity as high as the first century” for some paintings in the catacombs of S. Praxedes, but does not mention whether these are of the number.
Van Dyke, in his Christ-child in Art (page 120), describes an interesting third century fresco in the catacomb of SS. Marcellinus and Peter, representing the Adoration of the Magi.