Early Christian Flashcards

Wall with Torah Niche
244-245 CE
From a house-synagogue
Syria
Tempera on plaster, 4’
National Museum, Damascus

The Good Shepherd with Adam and Eve after the Fall
256 CE
Baptistery of a Christian house-chruch
Dura-Europos, Syria
Frescoe
Yale University Art Gallery

The Good Shepherd Orants, and the Story of Jonah
Catacomb of SS. Peter and Mercellinus, Rome
Late 3rd C. CE
The Good Shepherd
Late 3rd C.
Anatolia
Marnle, 20”
Cleveland Museum of Art

Plan Old Saint Peter’s Basilica
Rome
320-327 CE (Atriym in 4th C.)
400’

Plan and Section, Church of Santa Costanza
350 CE
Rome

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
359 CE
Grottoes of St. Peter, Vatican

Church of the Hagia Sophia
532-537 CE
Istanbul

Plan and Isometric Drawing of the Church of Hagia Sophia
532-537 CE
Istanbul

Interior of the Hagia Sophia
532-537 CE
Istanbul

Basilica San Vitale
Ravenna
547

Christ Enthroned, Flanked by Angels, St. Vitalis and Bishop Ecclesius
Church of San Vitale, Ravenna
547
Mosaic

Empress Theodora and her Attendants
South Wall of the Apse
Basilica San Vitale
Ravenna
547 CE
Mosaic

Empress Justinian and his Attendants
North Wall of the Apse
Basilica San Vitale
Ravenna
547
Mosaic

Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels
Late 6th C.
Icon. Encaustic on wood, 27”
Monastery of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt

Hinged Clasp from the Sutton Hoo Burial Ship
Suffolk, England
7th C.
Gold Plaques with grnaulations of garnet and millefiori glass
British Museum, London

Page with Man, Gospel Book of Durrow
Gospel of Matthew
Late 7th C.
Iona, Scotland
Ink and tempera on parchment, 10”
The Board of Trinity College