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Christian Roman Catacombs[edit]
The roots of Christianity can be traced back to Ancient Rome, with the discovery of catacombs. Christian catacombs exist as a burial ground for early Christians accompanied by inscriptions and early wall art. [1] Although catacombs were of Jewish origin in the first century, by the end of the sixth century there were over 60 Christian catacombs. These catacombs served as a connector for various Christian communities through the underlying concepts of socio-economic status shown within the art. Additionally, the art showed a story of how Christians in the first couple of centuries viewed the world and their idealistic view of how it should be.[2]
Christian art in the catacombs, is split into three categories: iconographic, stylistic, and technical. From the first to the sixth century, the art in Roman Christian catacombs progressively went into phases as well: an early phase, The Old Testament phase, and The New Testament phase. [3]
- ^ Riccioni, Stefano, "Rewriting Antiquity, Renewing Rome. The Identity of the Eternal City through Visual Art, Monumental Inscriptions and the Mirabilia", Rome Re-Imagined, Brill, pp. 27–51, ISBN 9789004235670, retrieved 2019-03-30
- ^ Smith, Eric C. (2014), "Heterotopia", Foucault’s Heterotopia in Christian Catacombs, Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 15–26, ISBN 9781349500130, retrieved 2019-03-30
- ^ "Sutherland, Edward Davenport, (19 Nov. 1853–8 Jan. 1923), Auditor-General of Canada, Ottawa", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 2007-12-01, retrieved 2019-03-30