ART201HANDOUT13,EARLYCHRISTIANANDLATE分析.docVIP

ART 201: HANDOUT 13, EARLY CHRISTIAN AND LATE ANTIQUE ART Catacombs: underground cemeteries outside Rome, these are the site of the earliest Christian paintings, which appear soon after 200 CE. Sketchy in style and presenting a limited number of motifs (the praying figure, the Good Shepherd, the Story of Jonah, etc.), it would seem that these images were seen as visual symbols of aspects of Christianity rather than as illustrations of Christian scenes (Painted Ceiling, Catacomb of Ss. Pietro and Marcellino, early 4th CE). Christian House, Dura Europos: the same twon preserves the best Ear