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ROME

EARLY CHRISTIAN AND MEDIEVAL ROME

 

Christian Rome through the Fifth Century

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Interior of the catacomb of Via Latina

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Good Sheperd fresco from the Saint Callistus catacomb 3rd

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Mosaic of Santa Pudenziana depicting Christ enthroned and surrounded by apostles dressed in the togas of the Roman senate

 

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San Lorenzo Outside the Walls
Christ with Peter and Paul
(Bishop Pelagius II 559-579 on the far right of Christ)
Late 5th C

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Miniature image of Dido and Aeneas from the Codex Vaticanus

 

 

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Coin of Emperor Constantine with cross and orb
315 AD

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Arch of Constantine. Medallion depicting ascent of sun god Helios
312-315 AD

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Mithraeum under church of San Clemente
2nd-3rd centuries AD

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Corridor of Roman catacomb

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Christ as Good Shepherd and Story of Jonah from Catacombs of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus
4th century AD

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Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
after 359 AD

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Statue of Emperor Constantine from Basilica of Maxentius
c 312 AD

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Mosaics on Triumphal Arch of Basilica of St. Maria Maggiore
c 430 AD

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Mosaic of Christ Child on Throne (St. Maria Maggiore)

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Image of Christ as Sol Invictus (Mausoleum of the Julii)
late 3rd century AD

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Basilica of Santa Sabina
425-440 AD

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Basilica of Santa Sabina (interior)

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Old St. Peter's Cathedral
(floor plan)
319 AD

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Old St. Peter's
(cutaway drawing)

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Arch of Constantine
(312-315 AD)

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Apsidal Mosaic of Christ and Apostles, Santa Pudenziana (late 4th-early 5th century AD)

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Santa Maria Maggiore, floor plan (late 4th-early 5th century AD)

 

 

 

 

Representations of Empire and Christianity in the Byzantine period

San Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna)

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Emperor Justinian portrayed with nimbus
556 AD

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Mary and Child

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Christ before Pilate

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Christ pronouncing the Last Judgement

 

 

San Vitale (Ravenna)

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Basilica of San Vitale
547 A.D.

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Christ as Cosmocrator

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Court of the Emperor Justinian

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Dignitary in Justinian's court

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Court of the Empress Theodora

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Empress Theodora

 

 

 

 

Enduring Myths: Images of Archaic Rome in the Middle Ages

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Titus Livius
Ab Urbe Condita
(Late 15th-century manuscript depicting the She-Wolf, Romulus and Remus, and the
Tiber.)

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Titus Livius
Ab Urbe Condita
(Another late 15th-century manuscript showing the twins with the walled city and the seven hills in the
background.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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