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Footnotes

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These wall paintings are frequently referred to as frescoes. Unfortunately, they are not; if they were, they would have survived in even better condition. Fresco technique involves applying the paint to wet plaster so the color is partally absorbed into the plaster. At Dura-Europos the so-called al secco technique was used: the paint was applied after the plaster dried. This technique is much easier to execute, but is less durable; the paint may flake off after a time.

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Matthew 27:46.

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Catalogue of the Barnett Newman exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1966).

Endnotes

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Louis Réau, Iconographies de l’art Chrétien, (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1955–1959) Vol. I, p. 6.

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Whitney J. Oates, ed., Basic Writings of St. Augustine (Random House, 1948), Vol. 2, p. 676.