Über die ältesten christlichen Begräbnissstätten und besonders die Katakomben zu Neapel mit ihren Wandgemälden : Ein Beitrag zur christlichen Alterthumskunde
An 1839 German scholarly study by Christian Friedrich Bellermann, published in Hamburg by Friedrich Perthes, on the earliest Christian burial places, especially the catacombs of Naples and their wall paintings, written for antiquarians and students of Christian archaeology. Its plates show semicircular painted lunettes with ornamental scrollwork and symbols, dark night-lit underground galleries with arched recesses, and small framed scenes of figures in pale tones with red outlines, offering a designer historical arch-framed compositions, ornament, and muted earth-toned palettes.
