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What is Catacomb of Priscilla's content?
Stories from the new and old testament. Jonah and the whale, and Christ the Good Shepherd.
Why is it called Catacombs of PRISCILLA?
Priscilla was the donor of the land for her family.
The catacombs are what?
Passageways.
Catacomb of Priscilla's and Santa Sabina's artist:
Unknown.
What is Santa Sabina's content?
Three aisled basilica culminating in an apse.
The bare exterior and sensitively decorated interior represents what?
Represents the Christian whose exterior may be gross but whose interior soul is beautiful.
The lower portions of the Greek Chapel in the Catacombs of Priscilla are done in what?
First Pompeiian style of painting. Characterized by painted rectangular squares meant to resemble marble facing.
What is the function of Santa Sabina?
Early Christian Church.
Catacomb of Priscilla's exact date?
200--400 ce.
Elements of the Christian design that were adapted from non-Christian sources of Santa Sabina.
Wooden roof, brick and stone building, tall slender columns taken from the Temple of Juno in Rome.
What is going on in Catacombs of Priscilla's content?
Orant stretches out hand in prayer. Figures pray for salvation in heaven.
Left: painting of a teacher with children
Right: mother and child
Symbolism of the Good shepherd: rescues individual sinners in his flock who stray.
What is the form of Santa Sabina?
Long, tall, broad nave. Axial plan (Basilican plan) a church with a long nave whose focus is the apse, designed along the axis.
What is the second function of the Catacombs of Priscilla?
They were used to hide from Roman persecution.
Santa Sabina's exact date?
422-432 CE.
The painters of the catacombs preferred the fresco technique because?
The Priscilla catacombs have how many burials? Who is buried there?
40,000 BURIALS. 7 popes.
More form of Santa Sabina.
Coffered ceiling, thin walls, flat wooden roof. Windows are made of selenite.
How would the worshipper experience Santa Sabina?
The men stood in the main aisle while the women were in the side aisle with a partial view.
Excavated tufa and fresco.
The division of painted spaces in the Good Shepherd fresco in the Catacombs of Priscilla is influenced by
Roman wall paintings as seen in the House of Vetti.
Peacocks in lunettes symbolize what?
Eternal life.
What is the extra form of the Catacombs of Priscilla, Orant Fresco?
Contains a fresco over a tomb niche set over an arched wall; cemetery of a family vault.
Where are both images located?
Rome, Italy
Santa Sabina's medium?
Brick, stone, wooden roof, selenite windows.