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DAY 33 | ART THROUGH THE AGES |
Early Christian & Byzantine Art
A CHRISTIAN CORNUCOPIA
Deep beneath the busy streets of Rome, dark catacombs reveal the earliest known images of Jesus, depicted in a blend of Christian and pagan symbolism that influenced the iconography of Byzantine art and beyond. These wall paintings, frescos, and mosaics contain images of Christ as the good shepherd or as a charioteer with a sun-like nimbus—both of which are borrowed from early Christianity’s oppressor, the Roman pagans. Though often naïve in execution, they reflect an attempt to capture naturalistic forms, as in pagan art.
WHEN & WHERE
c. 100-1453 CE ...
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