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Christ and Abba Menas |
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Christ and Abba Menas |
PASTORAL IMAGES, PRAYER, AND EUCHARIST
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Good Shepherd, ca. 200 |
Last Supper, ca. 200 |
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Prayer for the Dead, ca. 220 |
Christ as Orpheus, ca. 300 |
Good Shepherd, ca. 380 |
THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE CROSS
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Scratched on a plaster wall of a school for scribes in the city of Rome about 200 A.D. In the crude graffiti a human body with the head of a donkey, drawn from behind, is stretched on a stick cross. Below this scene a single figure raises his right arm in a salute. The unknown satirist offers the caption, Alexamenos worships his god. |
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Diagram of an excavated fourth-century monastic cell in Nitria, Egypt. Note the niche in the wall with an ornamental cross. |
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In the later (5th-7th cent.) tradition stylized crosses were the only ornamentation.
ROMAN PORTRAITURE AND CHRISTIAN ICONS
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Second Century |
Fayum Mummy Portraits. |
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Encaustic Icons of Christ and St. Peter, |
St. Katherine's Monastery, Sinai. ca. 550 |
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Apse, St. Katharine's Monastery, Sinai. ca. 550. |
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Transfiguration Apse, St. Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, ca, 550 |
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