The Vatican Vergil

 13" x 12"

• Old Farmer of Corycus, folio 7
• folio indicates placement of stack
• not a bound book
• oldest preserved manuscript
• Vergil far right

Mausoleum of Galla Placida

•  Funerary chapel
• Roman law disallowed decorated exterior
• early churches are plain
• Mosaic using clay
• Sarcophagus
• Jesus in mosaic carrying cross
• Jesus with Sheep
• purple robe- royalty
• sheep look like birds of prey

Christ before Pilate

•  Folio 8 of Rossano Gospels
• Top
• Pilate sitting on a throne
• Scribe taking notes

Woman Sacrificing at an Altar

400 CE

12" x 6"

• Rights leaf of diptych of Nicomachi and Symmachi
• Nicomachi & Symmachi are old Roman families
• wet drapery
• under olive tree
• Rites of Bacchus