L23 - Christian Images

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Cards (17)

  • Recognize this artwork:
    Title: The Good Shepherd
    Date: 300 CE
    Medium: marble
    Currently: Vatican Museum
  • Recognize this artwork:
    Title: Funerary Stele of Licinia Amias
    Date: 3rd century CE
    Medium: marble
    Place: Vatican Necropolis, Rome
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: The Good Shepherd, Orants, and the Story of Jonah
    Date: 4th century CE
    Medium: cruciform vault mural
    Place: Catacomb of SS. Pietro e Marcellino, Rome
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: The Good Shepherd
    Date: mid 3rd CE
    Medium: fresco
    Place: Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: The Good Shepherd
    Date: 5th CE
    Medium: mosaic
    Place: Ravenna
  • Jesus is...
    the vine (the love for humanity, believers = branches )
    the good shepherd (saviour, guiding souls, pre-existent symbol)
    fish (fisherman of men)
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: Sarcophagus of the Three Shepherds
    Date: late 4th CE
    Medium: carved marble
    Currently: Vatican Museum, Rome
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: The Sarcophagus of Constantina
    Date: 350s CE
    Medium: marble
    Place: Sta. Costanza, Rome
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: Sarcophagus with the Story of Jonah
    Date: 290 CE
    Medium: marble
    Currently: Vatican, Rome
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: Jonah Under the Gourd Vine
    Date: 270-280 CE
    Medium: marble statuette
  • Recognize the artwork:

    Title: Daniel in the Lions’ Den
    Date: 4th CE
    Place: Catacombs of SS Peter and Marcellinus
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: Mary with the Child Christ
    Date: 4th CE
    Place: Catacomb of Calixtus, Rome
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: Entry into Jerusalem
    Date: 4th CE
    Medium: marble sarcophagus
    Place: Rome
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: Ivory plaques with scenes from the Life of Jesus Christ
    Date: 420-430 CE
    Currently: British Museum
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: Christ the Lawgiver
    Date: 350 CE
    Medium: mosaic
    Inscription: “The Lord conveys the law”
  • Recognize the artwork:
    Title: Traditio Legis
    Date: 4th CE
    Medium: mosaic
    Place: Chapel of S. Aquilino
    Currently: Church of San Lorenzo, Milan
  • Compare images of Christ before Constantine and after Constantine: what are the main differences?
    Before recognized, Christ was represented in symbolic and allegorical terms. After, we got churches and more specific images, and not following the greco-roman canon to distinguish themselves.