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EARLY CHRISTIAN AND MEDIEVAL ROME

Christian Rome through the Fifth Century

*$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\catacvialatina.jpg$* *Interior of the catacomb of Via Latina*	*$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\goodshepherd.jpg$* *Good Sheperd fresco from the Saint Callistus catacomb 3rd*	*$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\stpudenziana.jpg$* *Mosaic of Santa Pudenziana depicting Christ enthroned and surrounded by apostles dressed in the togas of the Roman senate*
San Lorenzo Outside the Walls Christ with Peter and Paul (Bishop Pelagius II 559-579 on the far right of Christ) Late 5th C	*Miniature image of Dido and Aeneas from the Codex Vaticanus*
$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_coin_Constantine.jpg$ Coin of Emperor Constantine with cross and orb 315 AD	$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Arch_Constantine_Heli.jpg$ Arch of Constantine. Medallion depicting ascent of sun god Helios 312-315 AD	$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Mithraeum_SanClemente.jpg$ Mithraeum under church of San Clemente 2nd-3rd centuries AD	$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Corridor_Roman_cataco.jpg$ *Corridor of Roman catacomb*
$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Christ_as_Shepherd.jpg$ Christ as Good Shepherd and Story of Jonah from Catacombs of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus 4th century AD	*$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Sarcophagus_Juius_Bas.jpg$* Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus after 359 AD	$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Statue_Constantine_Ba.jpg$ Statue of Emperor Constantine from Basilica of Maxentius c 312 AD	$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Mosaics_Triumph_Arch.jpg$ Mosaics on Triumphal Arch of Basilica of St. Maria Maggiore c 430 AD
$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Mosaic_ChristChild_Th.jpg$ *Mosaic of Christ Child on Throne (St. Maria Maggiore)*	$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Christ_as_Sol_Invictu.jpg$ Image of Christ as Sol Invictus (Mausoleum of the Julii) late 3rd century AD	$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Basilica_Sta_Sabina.jpg$ Basilica of Santa Sabina 425-440 AD	$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Basilica_Sta_Sabina_i.jpg$ *Basilica of Santa Sabina (interior)*
$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Old_St_Peter_floor.jpg$ Old St. Peter's Cathedral (floor plan) 319 AD	$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_Old_St_Peter_cutaway.jpg$ Old St. Peter's (cutaway drawing)	$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_arch_constantine.jpg$ Arch of Constantine (312-315 AD)	$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_santa_pudenzia.jpg$ *Apsidal Mosaic of Christ and Apostles, Santa Pudenziana (late 4th-early 5th century AD)*
$Description: C:\Users\Milou\Documents\rome250\gallery\earlychristianimages\thumbnails\thumb_stanta_maria_mag.jpg$ *Santa Maria Maggiore, floor plan (late 4th-early 5th century AD)*

Representations of Empire and Christianity in the Byzantine period

San Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna)

Emperor Justinian portrayed with nimbus 556 AD	*Mary and Child*	*Christ before Pilate*	*Christ pronouncing the Last Judgement*

San Vitale (Ravenna)

Basilica of San Vitale 547 A.D.	*Christ as Cosmocrator*	*Court of the Emperor Justinian*	*Dignitary in Justinian's court*
	*Court of the Empress Theodora*	*Empress Theodora*

Enduring Myths: Images of Archaic Rome in the Middle Ages

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