2o6 TREES IN NATURE, MYTH & ART 



also represented ; and landscape not infrequently 

 appears as a setting for the figures. Trees are 

 represented, at times quite conventionally, with 

 stiff masses of foliage ; though, even in such 

 cases, we see the roots gathering themselves up 

 into the bole, the stems lean, and even curve 

 back on themselves, and the stumps are shown 

 where branches have been cut or broken off. 

 In the cemetery of Domitilla there is a wall- 

 painting representing the Good Shepherd, with 

 the lamb across His shoulders, and a staff in His 

 hand. Behind Him are two trees of the char- 

 acter just described. Other figures represent 

 the four seasons. Winter, with a spade over 

 his shoulder, warms himself at a fire ; Spring is 

 gathering roses ; Summer is cutting the corn ; 

 Autumn holds a bunch of grapes in one hand 

 and a horn of plenty in the other. Clouds 

 float in the sky above. We are a long way 

 yet from modern landscape ; but this design is 

 prophetic of it. 



In the same cemetery is a landscape more 

 sympathetically represented, with buildings, 

 people — with whom is a child — animals, and 

 trees much more freely and broadly treated. 

 Elsewhere we have the rose, stalks and ears of 



