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Good Shepherd, story of Jonah, and Orants
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Location: Catacomb, Rome
Date: Earthy 4th cent.
Medium: Fresco
Survived because Romans would not define funerary monuments. Large cross with central circle and on edges. Describes episodes from Jonah & the whale/funerary concepts. Christ shown youthful, barefaced, saving sheep. |
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Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
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Location: Rome
Date: 359
Medium: Marble
Early Christian, decorated only on 3 sides. Scenes from old/new testament to fill 10 niches. No scenes of crusafiction, was rare in early christian art. Scenes emphasize teching, miracles. |
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Restored view plan and section of Old Saint Peter's
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Location: Rome
Date: 320
Lots of windows around building allowed lots of light to get in (clerestory). Central planned structure with round dome. Ambulatory is around the center of the structure. Used for martyriums, smaller buildings, or mausoleums. |
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Interior of Santa Constanza
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Location: Rome
Date: 337-351
Mausoleum for Constantine's daughter. Covered in marble sheeth + mosaics. Has a ring of 12 columns that came from other buildings. |
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Detail of Vault Mosaic, Santa Costanza
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Location: Santa Costanza, Rome
Date: 337-351
Bust portrait of Costanza with grave vines around her. Vines represent Christ. Pagan art influences come from grape smashers. Represents a mix of Christian/Pagan art. |
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The parting of Lot and Abraham
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Location: S. Maria Maggiore Nave, Rome
Date: 432-440
Separating of Abraham and his Nephew, represents separation of good and evil. Abraham is on left. Strong use of gesture, but simple detail. From the first church dedicated to Mary. Ecumenical council is the meeting of religious authorities to decide details on faith. Decided to bestow the title Theotokos to Mary, which means bearer of god. |
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Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
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Location: Ravenna, Italy
Date: 425
Tiny cruciform building. Equal length arms. Domed at center, and has a crossing tower. |
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| Splitting of the Roman Empire |
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| In 395 Emperor Theodosius splits the empire. Onorius moves western capital to Ravenna, which is in northern Italy on the Adriatic coast. After his death, western Rome is ruled by Galla Placidia. He mints a coin and takes the Agustus title, and comissioned a mausoleum. |
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Christ as the Good Shepherd
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Location: Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna
Date: 425
Regal version of Christ, has a halo and is robed in gold/purple with sheep around him. Mosaic has influences from naturalstic classical art. |
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Miracle of the loaves and fishes
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Location: S Apollinare Nuovo, nave, Ravenna
Date: 504
Gold background a standard for medieval mosaics. Shows Jesus performing the maricle of creating bread and fish. |
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Location: Codex, old farmer
Date: 400-420
Medium: Tempura on Parchment
Earliest surviving painted Latin manuscript. Collection of the poet Vergil's works. Includes part of the text of Georgics. |
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Rebecca and Eliezer at the well
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Location: Vienna Genesis
Date: early 6th cent.
Medium: Tempera, gold, and silver on purple vellum (calfskin)
Oldest well-preserved manuscript containing biblical scenes. Shows 2 episodes of the Rebecca story. |
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Christ before Pilate
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Location: Rossano Gospels
Date: early 6th cent.
Medium: Tempera on purple vellum (calfskin)
Earliest preseved illuminated book that contains illustrations of the New Testament. Depics Jesus asking the Jews to choose between him and Barbbas. |
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Suicide of Judas and Crucifixion of Christ
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Date: 420
Medium: Ivory, 3x3 in.
First known representation of the Crucifixion. Christ shown as Christus triumphans (Christ on the cross still alive). Christus patiens: christ on the cross dead. Roman Longinus wounds christ and is instantly converted. King of the jews scripture above Jesus. |
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The portion of a basilica flanking the nave and separated from it by a row of
columns or piers. |
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A covered walkway; especially the passageway around the apse and the
choir of a basilica plan or central plan church. |
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| invisible line on which all of the most spiritual or mystical elements are arranged or lined up. |
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| A recess, usually singular and semi-circular, in the wall of a Roman basilica or at the east end of a Christian church. |
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| church plan based on the Roman basilica with a longitudinal axis and an entrance at one end and an apse at the other. |
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A canopy, often freestanding, on columns, frequently built over an altar.
Also called a ciborium. |
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| Literally, the seat of the bishop |
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A round domed building plan in which the parts of the structure are
arranged, with equal or almost equal, distances from the center. |
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he space in a cruciform church formed by the intersection of the nave and the
transept. |
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| Literally means “cross-shaped.” |
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| small chamber in an Early Christian catacomb that served as a mortuary chapel. |
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| writing tablet, often of ivory and carved on the external sides. |
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| A page of a manuscript or book. |
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The four books of the New Testament that relate the life and teachings of
Jesus. The Gospels were written by the Evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. |
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From the Latin ‘illuminare’ meaning to adorn. Decoration with drawings
(usually in gold, silver, and bright colors), especially of manuscript pages. |
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small rectangular shelf like openings in the walls of catacombs to receive the
dead. |
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| semi-circle above a door or in a wall. |
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| the vestibule of a church ; a transverse hall in front of the nave. |
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| From the Latin meaning ‘ship.’ The center or main aisle of a church extending from the entrance to the crossing or choir. |
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| halo appearing around a head to signify divinity |
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| in Early Christian art, a figure represented with hands raised in prayer. |
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A painted or sculpted representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of
Christ. |
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In Early Christian art, the depiction of Old Testament persons and events
as prophetic forerunners of Christ and New Testament events. |
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From the Greek for “bearer of God.” A title bestowed on the Blessed Virgin
Mary by the council at Ephesus in 431. |
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