If you choose an example of church architecture, think about the layout and the architectural shapes. Describe the borrowings you see from previous Roman architecture. What forms did the early Christian churches take? What adjustments were made to the buildings to accommodate Christian ceremony?
Class discussion: All visual art evolved from what came before. Early Christian imagery developed within Roman culture, so it is natural that many of the symbols were older pagan images simply cast with new meaning. Christian imagery also included earlier Jewish narrative. Iconography is the study of symbolic subject matter in art. It is a […]