Art History Chapter 8

What was the date and purpose of the Edict of Milan?

313, recognized Christianity as a legal religion equal to the cults of the traditional gods

What aspect of the codex form enabled the production of elaborately decorated texts?

Animal skin was a good base for painting.

In their stillness, stylized gestures, and frontality, the figures in this painting most resemble those of which Roman monument?

Arch of Septimius Severus

Which artwork reveals the continued attachment to pagan style and iconography among the Roman upper classes after the Theodosian ban in 391?

Diptych of the Symmachi

In their construction, catacombs most resembled which earlier funerary structures?

Etruscan tomb chambers

Which figure did not appear in the synagogue paintings of Dura-Europos?

God

Which aspect of this mosaic from the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia is no longer rooted in the naturalist classical tradition?

Jesus carries a cross-scepter and wears purple.

The prohibition in the Second Commandment regarding the worship of images made the decorative program of which structure a surprise to art historians?

Jewish synagogue at Dura-Europos

What was the function of cubicula in the Christian catacombs of Rome?

Mortuary chapels

The synagogue at Dura-Europos has an extensive program of decoration in what medium?

Painting on plaster

What explains the large size of tesserae used in Early Christian church mosaics as compared to earlier Roman Republican mosaics?

Placement in building

Who are the figures called orants in Christian art?

Praying people

Which term refers to the Early Christian view of how events in the Old Testament and the New Testament are related to each other?

Prefiguration

Which color was associated with the Roman emperor?

Purple

In clarifying the importance of the Old Testament to Christians, who claimed "the New Testament is hidden in the Old; the Old is clarified by the New"?

Saint Augustine

Which early church had a mosaic program that included many subjects common to Roman funerary art—such as putti and wine—that could be given a Christian interpretation?

Santa Costanza

In what way does this painting differ from contemporaneous decoration of Roman houses?

Subject matter

Dura-Europos is a town overlooking the Euphrates River in which modern country?

Syria

Which aspect of the plan of Old Saint Peter's is unusual for an early church?

Transept

What was the effect of the gold background of tesserae in church mosaics?

Transferred figures from the real world to the spiritual plane