Exam 7: Jewish and Early Christian Art

What specific aspect of Christian practice helped determine the architectural design of early churches?

What are the different types of Christian art in existence from the time prior to Constantine?

Christian art includes ________ images that act as tangible signs of intangible concepts, and ___________ images that recount a specific event.

Most examples of Early Christian sculpture created before the fourth century are ____________.

Orant figures are associated with which religious group?

The image of Christ in the Cubiculum of Leonis is iconic because _______________.

What is the origin of the Jewish people?

How is the Bible organized?

An example of ___________in art is the Good Shepherd, a Christian symbol that was based on pagan images of Apollo, Hermes, Orpheus, or the personification of philanthropy.

What are the basic beliefs of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims?

What was the use of the catacombs?

What is the history of the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem?

The first synagogue at Dura Europos was located in a(n) __________

The followers of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all __________, which means that the followers believe that only one god created and rules the universe.

What are the basic meanings of the Christian symbols of the dove, fish, and lamb?

Which architectural element, sometimes seen in Early Christian longitudinal churches, did NOT derive from the Roman basilica?

The peacocks on the Sarcophagus of Constantina symbolize __________.

Early Christians often employed stories from _______________ as prefigurations of important events in the Christian Bible.