Unit 30 EARLY CHRISTIAN SCULPTURE


There are two main stylistic trends, one hellenizing (realistic), the other more abstract, spiritual, rejecting naturalistic forms.


01 Rome: Arch  ofConstantine
(315 AD)

02 detail (spolia)

03 detail (spolia)

04 detail
(frieze: Constantinian)

05 

06 Constantinople-column of Theodosius (c. 390 AD)

07 detail of base 

08 detail of base

09 detail of base

10 detail of base

11 Rome, Ara pacis of Augustus (13 BC)

12 detail

13 Symmachi&Nichomachi
diptych  (c. 388-394 AD)

14 Arch of Constantine, detail 

15 

16 Rome, Sta Sabina doors
(c. 432-440 AD)

17 detail 

18 detail

19 detail

20 

21 Marcus Aurelius (161-80 AD), thought in the Middle Ages to be  Constantine (306-337 AD)

22 Constantine (306-337 AD) or Justinian (525-67 AD)

23 Rome, Constantine-Colossus 

24 detail

25 

26 Venice-Tetrarchs (c. 300)

27 Ravenna-Museum 

28 Istanbul Museum, tombs 

29 Rome, Sta Costanza
tomb of Costanza (daughter of Constantine) (c. 350 AD)

30 Good-Shepherd 

31 Rome, Capitoline Museum
sarcophagus

32 Ravenna, San Vitale, sarcophagus-Daniel in Lions' Den 

33 Ravenna, San Vitale, sarcophagus -Raising of Lazarus 

34 Ravenna, San Vitale-'Traditio Legis' (Christ giving the Law to the apostles Peter and Paul) 

35 Ludovisi Sarcophagus
(Roman, 1st c. BC-1st c. AD)

36 Sarcophagus of Adelphia 

37 Adelphia-detail: the Temptation of Adam and Eve

38 Rome, Sta Maria Antiqua, sarcophagus Jonah, washed up on the shore after emerging from the belly of the whale, rests under a gourd tree 

39 Jonah -detail 

40 

41Vatican Grottos, Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus 359 AD 

42 Junius-Bassus 

43 Junius-details (Peter taken prisoner; Adam and Eve)

44 Junius-detail
Entry to Jerusalem

45 Junius-detail
'Traditio legis' (Christ hands Law to Peter and Paul; personification of Earth below)

46 Ravenna, San Vitale, throne of Maximian, first Archibishop of Ravenna, c. 547 AD 

47 detail of side panel: the story of Joseph 
(Genesis 37-50)

48 Joseph put in the well 
(Genesis 37)

49 front: evangelists and St John the Baptist, New Testament scenes on the inside of t he back 

50 The Journey to Bethlehem

51 The Naivity: curing of the withered hand (Protevangelium of James)

52 Baptism

53 Two evangelists

54 Brescia-Casket 
c. 360 AD

55 Brescia detail

56 Ravenna, San Vitale-stucco decoration 
c. 547 AD

57 San Vitale, sculpted capital in marble, soffit in stucco 

58 Ravenna, pulpit 

59 pulpit detail

60 copy 


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