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4 days ago · Art historian Robert Couzin, who specializes in Early Christianity, has studied numbers of Christian sarcophagi in Rome. He has written that "more sophisticated mathematical models (for the shape of the expansion curve) could affect certain assumptions, but not the general tendency of the numerical hypotheses".
5 days ago · "Triumph of Orthodoxy" over iconoclasm under the Byzantine Empress Theodora and her son Michael III. Late 14th – early 15th-century icon.. Iconoclasm (from Greek: εἰκών, eikṓn, 'figure, icon' + κλάω, kláō, 'to break') is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons.
5 days ago · The Anchor. The anchor, an ancient symbol of hope and steadfastness, was adopted by early Christians to represent their faith and security in Christ. This symbol draws from the Epistle to the Hebrews in the New Testament, which describes hope as “an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.”. The anchor also served as a covert symbol during ...
1 day ago · IAA Director Eli Escusido said, "This surprising and intriguing find of ship drawings in a Northern Negev Byzantine-period church opens a window for us to the world of Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land 1,500 years ago, and provides first-hand evidence about the ships they travelled in and the maritime world of that time." The ...
6 days ago · Christian art emerged only relatively late. According to art historian André Grabar, the first known Christian images emerge from about AD 200, though there is some literary evidence that small domestic images were used earlier.
6 days ago · How to Identify Saints in a Work of Art . If you are unsure of the identity of a saint in a work of art, you will need to search Iconclass and then some general Art Iconography Books. Step 1: Iconclass. First identify as many of the objects or images that appear on or around the saint.
5 days ago · It gives us a taste of early Christian art. It is spare, as was keeping with understandings of Christian art focused on the holy and eternal (as opposed, say, to the Renaissance where background and nature acquire importance, or modern art, where the background replaces anything sacred).
