Exam 4: Early Christianity and Byzantium

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Junius Bassus sarcophagus (Figure 4-1).The Junius Bassus sarcophagus creates segmented separated columns.This framing device can be found in High Empire sarcophagi as well as imperial Roman structures and Christian churches.The treatment can be attributed to the now firmly established place of Christianity within society at this time.The conventionalized human figures are typical of the early Christian departure from the ideal beauty and classical canon of proportion of imperial Rome.

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Virgin and Child Between Saints Theodore and George (Figure 4-19)and Vladimir Virgin (4-26).Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George is earlier and shows traces of Greco-Roman illusionism in the individualized faces.The Vladimir Virgin shows the stylized abstraction,a product of centuries of icon production.Both works focus on the Virgin and Child theme and their importance to the Christian tradition.The Vladimir Virgin has moved even closer to promoting the "loving compassion" of the mother figure as represented by the Madonna,an evolution in religious philosophical thought echoed in this icon.The first icon was likely made before the iconoclasm of the seventh century.