Chapter Eleven

Chapters

1 - Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age
3 - Ancient Egypt
4 - Prehistoric Aegean
5 - Ancient Greece
9 - Etruscans
10 - Ancient Rome
11 - Early Christian
12 - Byzantium
16 - Early Medieval
17 - Romanesque
18 and 19 - Gothic
20 - Fifteenth Century Northern Europe and Spain
21 - Fifteenth Century Italy
22-High Renaissance
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Book #11-3

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Book#11-3

Artist:Unknown
Title:Painted SCeiling
Location:Catacomb of SS. Pietro e Marcellino, Rome, Italy
Date:4th century
Description: Jesus is good shepherd - center

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Christ with animals
Location:Roman Catacombs
Date:3rd century
Description:

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Gravestone
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Description: Early Christian symbolism. Latin inscription. Chi Rho cross.

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Gravestone (detail)
Location:
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Description: Chi Rho cross, suspended Alpha Omega

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Sarcophagus with pastoral scenes
Location:Roman catacomb
Date:4th century
Description:

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Book #11-4

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Christ as Good Shepherd (sarcophagus)
Location:
Date:4th century
Description:

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Book #11-15

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Book#11-15

Artist:Unknown
Title:Christ the Good Shepherd
Location:Tomb of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, Italy
Date:5th century
Description: lunette

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Book#11-19

Artist:Unknown
Title:Jacom wrestling with the Angel
Location: from Vienna Genesis
Date: Early 6th century
Description: illuminated manuscript. One of the oldest illustrated bible manuscripts found in Hellenistic Roman style. Written in silver on purple vellum. Shows sequence of events (a continuous narrative of scenes from story of Jacob)

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Sant' Apollinare in Classe (exterior)
Location:Ravenna, Italy
Date:533-549
Description:

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Book #11-16

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Sant' Apollinare in Classe (interior towards altar)
Location:Ravenna, Italy
Date:533-549
Description:

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Book #11-17

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Book#11-17

Artist:Unknown
Title:Christ and Four Evangelists, Miracle of the Loaves
Location:Sant'Apollinare, Nuovo Church
Date:504
Description: mosaic