Early Christian Art

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Interior of Santa Costanza, Rome, Italy, ca. 337–351, Late Antiquity

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Mosaic Bust of Santa Constanza, in the ambulatory of Santa Costanza, Rome, Italy, ca. 337–351, Late Antiquity

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Christ as the Good Shepherd, from the entrance wall of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, Italy, ca. 425, Late Antiquity

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Basillica of Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, Italy, begun ca. 319, Late Antiquity

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San Vitale , Ravenna, Italy, 526–547, Byzantine

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Justinian, Bishop Maximianus, and attendants, , San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, ca. 547, Byzantine

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Theodora and attendants, San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, ca. 547, Byzantine

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Justinian as world conqueror, mid-sixth century

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Lamb of God, San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, 526-547, Byzantine

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ANTHEMIUS OF TRALLES and ISIDORUS OF MILETUS, Hagia Sophia, 532–537, Byzantine

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Looped fibulae, from Jouy-le-Comte, France, mid-sixth century, Early Medieval

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Purse cover, from the Sutton Hoo ship burial in Suffolk, England, ca. 625, Early Medieval

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Man (symbol of Saint Matthew), Book of Durrow, possibly from Iona, Scotland, ca. 660–680, Hiberno Saxon Art

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Portrait of Matthew, Lindisfarne Gospels, from Northumbria, England, ca. 698–721, Hiberno Saxon Art

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Chi-rho-iota page, Book of Kells, probably from Iona, Scotland, late eighth or early ninth century, Hiberno Saxon Art

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Cross inscribed carpet page, Lindisfarne Gospels, from Northumbria, England, ca. 698–721, Hiberno Saxon Art

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Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne , from Metz, France, ninth century, Carolingian Art

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Plan for a monastery at Saint Gall, Switzerland, ca. 819, Carolingian Art

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Crucifixion, Lindau Gospels, from Saint Gall, Switzerland, ca. 870, Carolingian Art

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Saint Matthew, Coronation Gospels ,from Aachen, Germany, ca. 800–810, Carolingian Art

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Chapel of Charlemagne, Aachen, Germany, 792–805, Carolingian Art

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Saint Matthew , Ebbo Gospels , from Hautvillers, France, ca. 816–835, Carolingian Art

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Otto III enthroned, Gospel Book of Otto III, from Reichenau, Germany, 997–1000, Ottonian