By Robin Margaret Jensen
Figuring out Early Christian artwork deals an insightful, erudite and lavishly illustrated research of the which means and message of early Christianity as printed within the texts and photographs of its first practitioners. Robin Margaret Jensen examines the motifs and topics of early Christian artwork, integrating them with the symbols and topics of Christian literature and liturgy. starting with an research of the non-narrative topics of the early art--the solid Shepherd, the praying determine, fish and birds--Jensen is going directly to discover the narrative pictures present in Roman catacomb portray, sarcophagus aid sculpture, early mosaics, ivories, and manuscript illumination. eventually, the booklet examines iconographic topics similar to Jonah, Daniel, Abraham supplying Isaac, and Adam and Eve.
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