Exam 7: Jewish and Early Christian Art

The ____________, which provided space for the clergy and pilgrims, was an innovative feature of St. Peter's.

What were the architectural elements of the basilica plan and the central church plan?

Both the figures and the backdrop of the mosaics in the rotunda of St. George possess ______________ features.

What are at least two types of synagogue designs?

Along with Judaism and Christianity, __________ is the other world religion that was born in the Near East and dominates today's Western world.

How does Santa Costanza represent a tholos?

Any large room where Torah scrolls are kept and read publicly can function as a ___________.

Why were central-plan structures used for baptisteries, as well as for martyr's churches and tombs?

In the Oratory of Galla Placidia, the ____________ symbolize eternal life.

The Eucharist is an elaborate ceremony in Christian worship involving the ritual consumption of bread and wine, identified as the _______________of Christ.

In the central scene of the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Christ appears as _____________.

What was the purpose of the Edict of Milan?

The mosaics in the rotunda of St. George in Thessaloniki depict

Geographically and administratively, how was the early church organized?

What image does NOT appear on the mosaic floor found at the Beth Alpha Synagogue?

Images of putti figures harvesting grapes in the Church of Santa Costanza refer to __________________.

Discoveries at Dura-Europos in the 1930s contradicted what long-held scholarly belief?

The Roman basilica provided the basic design for Christian ________-plan churches.

Jews and Christians used ___________for burials and funerary ceremonies, not as places of worship.

The Christian Good Shepherd image draws on pagan images of all of the following EXCEPT: