The Rise of Christianity in the Greco-Roman World

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The Rise of Christianity in the Greco-Roman World Early Christian Art and Architecture II

Maison Carrée, Nîmes, 16 BCE

Hadrian’s Mausoleum, Rome, 130-39

Arch of Titus, Rome, 81

House of St Peter, Capernaum, 1st cent Martyrium, 5th cent

Imperial Fora, Rome Basilica Ulpia, 110-113

Basilica of Maxentius, Rome, 313

Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem, ~ 335

St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, 319-335

Santa Sabina, Rome, 422-32; San Apollinare in Classe, 533-49

Mosaics in St Apollinare Santa Costanza, Rome, mid 4th

Hadrian, ~120 (Vatican); M Aurelius, Capitoline bronze, 161-80; Philip the Arab, Vatican, 244-49; the Tetrarchs, St Mark’s Venice ~300; Colossal head of Constantine, 307-337, Capitoline Museum

Constantine (Rome, Capitol Museum) Constantius II (337-61)

Emperor Julian, 361-63, Louvre Eutropius, ~450, Vienna

Prefect, 359

Missorium of Theodosius I, ~388 (Copy from Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Mérida (original in the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid)

Long-Cross Solidus of Pulcheria (414 – 453), Constantinople, 420-422 (Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum)

Apsidal mosaic from the Church of Santa Pudenziana, Rome (late IV)

Ivory diptychs: Adam in Paradise, late IV; Daughter of Symmachus, late IV; Archangel Michael, early VI (London, BM) 0.43 m

Jerusalem Orpheus (Istanbul) late VI