Church of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo

(Ravenna), dedicated 504

Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes from Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (Ravennna), c. 504

appearance of a gold background to suggest an unworldly (sacred) realm/ formal symmetry and

economy of means (to reinforce its symbolic content)/ less emphasis on shadowing and more

emphasis on the miraculous event

Rebecca and Eliezer at the well, from

the Vienna Genesis, early sixth century; tempera, gold, and

silver on purple vellum

Constantinople in Early Christianity/ codex and rotulus/ folio/ vellum and parchment/ persistence of

Classical motifs and stylistic modes

Christ before Pilate, folio 8 verso of the

Rossano Gospels, early sixth

century, tempera on purple vellum

Christ depicted with a beard and a nimbus/ use of

labeling for narrative clarity

Suicide of Judas and the Crucifixion of Christ, c. 420, ivory plaque from a casket

Priestess celebrating the rites of Bacchus, right leaf of the Diptych

of the Nicomachi and the Symmachi, c. 400, ivory

persistence of the classical form with its emphasis on beauty/ ivory

diptych/ discontent with the dominating Christian culture

St. Michael the Archangel, early sixth century, ivory

ambiguous relationship between the figure and its setting