CHAPTER FOUR
She beheld a masterpiece of Early Christian art.
Of course she had seen the chapel in photographs. She had studied the dry archaeological reports, the discussion in art history journals, but nothing could express the experience of seeing it firsthand.
Remi felt more than saw the chamber open up into the largest space they had yet seen since entering the catacombs. The pinprick of light Daniel let through his fingers barely showed a large rectangular room about ten meters on its longest side, with a low vaulted ceiling. On this ceiling was a fresco that had somehow remained remarkably preserved over the centuries.
Daniel played his light over it, and as he did his fingers unconsciously opened up a little to allow them to see this priceless work of art more clearly.
A large
