Late Antiquity Flashcards
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
SIZE: life-size
MATERIAL: marble
LOCATION: museum
ANCIENT TRADITION: Late Antiquity
BELIEF SYSTEM: Christianity
INFORMATION/STATEMENT:
- Depicts various scenes of Bible
- Early Christian art
- Combines classical art with Christian themes
- Shows Christianization of Rome
- Relief structure, classical art
- scenes are understandable for the uneducated masses
- most prominent scene is the central of the top register (youthful Jesus with St. Paul and St. Peter at his sides
Suicide of Judas and Crucifixion of Christ
SIZE: small
MATERIALS: ivory
LOCATION: museum
ANCIENT TRADITION: Late Antiquity
BELIEF SYSTEM: Christianity
INFORMATION/STATEMENTS:
- Plaque from an ivory box
- Earliest depiction of crucifixion
- Classical elements
- Lack of bodily feel, stockiness of the figures
- Jesus seems indifferent to the pain
“Christ as Good Shepherd” Mosaic
SIZE: life-size
MATERIALS: glass tesserae, mosaics
LOCATION: Italy
ANCIENT TRADITION: Classical, Late Antiquity
BELIEF SYSTEM: Christianity
INFORMATION/STATEMENTS:
- adorns golden textile
- purple textile (colour of emperors)
- located above the north entrance of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
- Christ has a halo, gold tunic and purple drapery
