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First Christian church : the domus ecclesiae reign did many Eastern regions submit to the ascendancy of the art of Constantinople , following until the 6th and even the 7th century the paths traced by Christian art in its beginnings ...
First Christian church : the domus ecclesiae reign did many Eastern regions submit to the ascendancy of the art of Constantinople , following until the 6th and even the 7th century the paths traced by Christian art in its beginnings ...
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... Christian art to decorate churches. significance ( pagan or Christian ) -praying figures and a shepherd carrying a sheep on his shoulders , generally called the " Good Shepherd " ( Figure 89 ) . As early as the first half of the 3rd ...
... Christian art to decorate churches. significance ( pagan or Christian ) -praying figures and a shepherd carrying a sheep on his shoulders , generally called the " Good Shepherd " ( Figure 89 ) . As early as the first half of the 3rd ...
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... Christian mosaic . The examples of this art , few and far between in the 4th century , are more numerous and sometimes of excellent quality in the 5th century . While continuing a Roman tradition three cen- turies old , the Christian ...
... Christian mosaic . The examples of this art , few and far between in the 4th century , are more numerous and sometimes of excellent quality in the 5th century . While continuing a Roman tradition three cen- turies old , the Christian ...
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