Chapter 7 - Jewish & Early Christian Art

7.1     Investigate the ways in which late antique Jewish and Christian art developed from the artistic traditions of the ancient Roman world.
7.2     Interpret how late antique Jewish and Christian artists used narrative and iconic imagery to convey the foundations of the Christian faith for those already initiated into the life of the Church.
7.3     Understand the relationship between the art and architecture of Jewish and Christian communities and their cultural and political situation within the late Roman Empire.
7.4     Analyze the connection between form and function in buildings created for worship

IMAGES (be able to identify these images by title, general time period, medium, and culture of origin)
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• 7-1 Cubiculum of Leonis, Catacomb of Commodilla
• 7-7 The Good Shepherd, Orants, and the story of Jonah
• 7-9 Reconstruction drawing of the interior of Old St. Peter's, Rome
• 7-10 Church of Santa Sabina, interior
• 7-11 Church of Santa Sabina, exterior
• 7-17 Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
• 7-20 The Good Shepherd, lunette @ Galla Placidia

You should be familiar enough with other images presented in the text and lectures, so as to be able to support explanations of attribution and physical, formal, iconographical, and contextual analysis.

VOCABULARY

• Catacomb
• House church
• House synagogue
• Syncretism
• Narrative
• ​Icon
• Medallion
• Lunette
• Christian symbols: dove, fish, lamb, four evangelists, monograms, cross
• See also: the Life of Jesus, p. 230 for additional iconogrpahy
• Elements of Architecture, p. 225 (images and vocabulary)​