1. Early Christian Art / Architecture Catacombs in Rome Christians used for burial chambers Christians did not believe in cremation because of their belief in the resurrection

2. Early Christian Art / Architecture The Good Shepherd Not intended to be a portrait of Christ Symbolic art

3. Early Christian Art / Architecture San Piero a Grado Basilica Pisa, Italy

4. Early Christian Art / Architecture Santa Costanza Basilica Rome, Italy ca 350 CE

5. Early Christian Art / Architecture Hagia Sophia “Divine Wisdom” Istanbul, Turkey Converted to a mosque under the Ottoman Empire

6. Early Christian Art / Architecture Hagia Sophia “Divine Wisdom” Istanbul, Turkey Converted to a mosque under the Ottoman Empire

7. Early Christian Art / Architecture Hagia Sophia “Divine Wisdom” Istanbul, Turkey Converted to a mosque under the Ottoman Empire

8. Early Christian Art / Architecture Hagia Sophia “Divine Wisdom” Istanbul, Turkey Converted to a mosque under the Ottoman Empire

9. Early Christian Art / Architecture The most famous of the surviving Byzantine mosaics of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople – the image of Christ Pantocrator on the walls of the upper southern gallery.

10. Early Christian Art / Architecture Mosaic from San Vitale in Ravenna, showing the Emperor Justinian an d Bishop Maximian of Ravenna surrounded by clerics and soldiers

11. Early Christian Art / Architecture The Annunciation from Ohrid, one of the most admired icons of the Paleologan Mannerism, bears comparison with the finest contemporary works by Italian artists

12. Early Christian Art / Architecture St Mark's Basilica in Venice, where imported Byzantine mosaicists were succeeded by Italians they had trained