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Study Set 3.3
Late Antiquity
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
10/24/2011

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The Vatican Vergil

400-420 CE
Tempera on plaster

 13" x 12"

    • Old Farmer of Corycus, folio 7
    • folio indicates placement of stack
    • not a bound book
    • oldest preserved manuscript
    • Vergil far right

 

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Mausoleum of Galla Placida

425 CE
Brick construstion
Ravenna, Italy
    •  Funerary chapel
    • Roman law disallowed decorated exterior
      • early churches are plain
    • Mosaic using clay
    • Sarcophagus
    • Jesus in mosaic carrying cross
    • Jesus with Sheep
      • purple robe- royalty
      • sheep look like birds of prey

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Christ before Pilate

6th CE
tempera on purple vellum

 

    •  Folio 8 of Rossano Gospels
    • Top
      • Pilate sitting on a throne
      • Scribe taking notes
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Woman Sacrificing at an Altar

400 CE

carved ivory

12" x 6"

  • Rights leaf of diptych of Nicomachi and Symmachi
  • Nicomachi & Symmachi are old Roman families
  • wet drapery
  • under olive tree
  • Rites of Bacchus

 

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