Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Year of lecture: 1957 - 1958 (two lectures)
Abstract:
"In order to understand how Christianity slowly fashioned a completely new form of art out of the art of the Roman world, we must appreciate how man’s opinion of himself greatly changed from early classical times down to the late Roman Empire. The masterpiece of fifth century Greece, such as the Apollo on the west pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia represent the classical ideal of self-sufficient man. A man capable of both understanding and controlling his environment - it is ideal man - man seen and fashioned as one of the gods."
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