ART-HIST 305 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Jesus, Christianity, Amplitude Modulation
20 Nov 2018
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Beginnings and endings in early christian art: catacombs and sarcophagi. Infrastructure: roads, transportation, routes of communication, culture, can have own traditions but the roman emperor has to be accepted as god. Idea of refuge of christian beliefs is fabricated: roman cremated their dead, christians did not, pragmatic reason: catacombs hid a bunch of bodies since the roman empire had a big population. Frescos covered loculi: the good shepard, catacomb of callistus, s2nd century ce, rome, italy, one of the earliest standard iconography of christ. Look back to excerpts from the old testaments and saw it as evidence of the good. Lord to come: calf-bearer (moscophoros), greece, c. 550 bce, relating to the good shepard. Intelligent move to make people not be afraid of your new religion by using old pieces of art as reference: contrapossto, cubiculum ceiling with good shepard, catacomb of st. peter and marcellinus, 4th century.
