But while in the ancient Greek types, and the old mosaics, the attributes are omitted, they adhere almost invariably to a certain characteristic individual representation, which in the later ages of painting was wholly lost, or at least neglected. In these eldest types, St. Peter has a broad face, white hair, and short white beard: St. Paul, a long face, high bold forehead, dark hair and beard: St. Andrew is aged, with flowing white hair and beard: St. John, St. Thomas, St. Philip, young and beardless: St. James Major and St. James Minor, in the prime of life, short brown hair and beard; both should bear a resemblance more or less to the Saviour, but St. James Minor particularly: St. Matthew, St. Jude, St. Simon, St. Matthias, aged, with white hair. The tablets or scrolls which they carry in their hands bear, or are supposed to bear, the articles of the Creed. It is a tradition, that, before the apostles dispersed to preach the Gospel in all lands, they assembled to compose the declaration of faith since called the Apostles’ Creed, and that each of them furnished one of the twelve propositions contained in it, in the following order:—St. Peter: _Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, creatorem cœli et terræ_. St. Andrew: _Et in Jesum Christum Filium ejus unicum, Dominum nostrum_. St. James Major: _Qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine_. St. John: _Passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus et sepultus_. St. Philip: _Descendit ad inferos, tertia die resurrexit à mortuis_. St. James Minor: _Ascendit ad cœlos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis_. St. Thomas: _Inde venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos_. St. Bartholomew: _Credo in Spiritum Sanctum_. St. Matthew: _Sanctam Ecclesiam Catholicam; sanctorum communionem_. St. Simon: _Remissionem peccatorum_. St. Matthias: _Carnis resurrectionem_. St. Thaddeus: _Et vitam æternam_. The statues of the apostles on the shrine of the Virgin in the San Michele at Florence exhibit a fine example of this arrangement. I give the figure of St. Philip holding his appropriate sentence of the Creed on a scroll (65). [Illustration: 65 Orcagna] * * * * * In later times, the Apostles, instead of being disposed in a line, are grouped round the Saviour in glory, or they form a circle of heads in medallions: as statues, they ornament the screen in front of the altar, or they are placed in a line on each side of the nave, standing against the pillars which support it. From the sixth century it became usual to distinguish each of them by a particular emblem or attribute borrowed from some circumstance of his life or death. Thus, taking them in order, according to the canon of the mass,— St. Peter bears the keys or a fish. St. Paul, the sword: sometimes two swords. St. Andrew, the transverse cross. St. James Major, the pilgrim’s staff.