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Early Christianity |
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Early Christianity |
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This period of art history encompasses the beginnings of Christian art, when Christianity was still a persecuted "sect;" through the first era of great Christian church building after Christianity achieved imperial sanction under Constantine; and through the beginnings of the powerful Eastern Christian empire centered in Constantinople (the "new Rome"), which came to be known as the Byzantine empire.
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Catacombs |
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Sarcophagi |
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Early Christian Architecture |
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Ravenna Art and Architecture |
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Early Byzantine Architecture |
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Manuscript illumination |
All images marked MAS were photographed on location by Mary Ann Sullivan. All other images were scanned from other sources or downloaded from the World Wide Web; they are posted on this password-protected site for educational purposes, at Bluffton College only, under the "fair use" clause of U.S. copyright law.