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Baptism
(Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan), 1971)
Baptism is also portrayed in a more literal representation. Both spoke of baptism into Christ, and therefore into eternal life. Baptism fresco in the Catacomb of Callistus.
Orpheus
(Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan), 1971)
However, the earliest known representations reflect the roman shepherd in style, pose and attributes, the assimilation, within fifty years, of the closely allied personage of Orpheus would indicate either that a Christian ...
The Good Shepherd, or Apollo or Orpheus
(Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan), 1971)
As for the charge of idolatry this representative of humanitas was not seen as an idol but rather as a symbol. In Christian literature God's love was portrayed in the symbol of the shepherd of the psalms while Christ ...
Mithras hunting
(Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan), 1971)
Mithras hunting. Fresco in the Mithraeum reconstructed in the Yale University Art Gallery.
Fresco of St. John Lateran
(Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan), 1971)
The portion of that Palace which was the basilica was turned into a church. Fresco of the Lateran Basilica as found in a fresco in San Martino Ai Monti.
The Good Shepherd
(Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan), 1971)
The simplest answer to the source of early Christian iconography is in the iconographic vocabulary available in the secular Roman world. Christian iconography, drawn from contemporary cultural images was useful to the ...
Another Apostle
(Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan), 1971)
The problems of iconographical perception and practice are obvious. John presumes a portrait is of an idol. Lycomedes is not apologetic but insists that what he has done is proper; he is but showing love and reverence for ...
Adam and Eve
(Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan), 1971)
Fresco of Adam and Eve in the catacomb of Pietro e Marcellino.
Heavenly Jerusalem
(Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan), 1971)
The Christian saw in the resurrection of Lazarus the promise of his own resurrection and oneself as a citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem. The heavenly Jerusalem, four square, fresco from the tomb of the Aurelii.
Noah
(Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan), 1971)
Pagan iconography and roman style weave in and out of one another. In so solidly an Old Testament symbol as that of Noah, we find him saved from the flood in an ark.