NEW BRANCHES OF THE ROMAN TRUNK. THE ISSUE OF “EARLY CHRISTIAN REVIVAL” IN CENTRAL EUROPE

The attempts to revive and emulate the early-Christian art undertaken after the Council of Trent, was primarily a kind of monument conservation programme. Such efforts had illustrated the return of the church to its sacred apostolic tradition, with a limited scope to places where the monuments dating back to the first centuries in the history of the Church had been preserved, that is chiefly to Rome and Milan. Therefor the paper is aimed at rare attempts to adopt this trend in Central Europe, e.g. Graz or Lowicz.