Greco-Roman – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu The official news site for Fordham University. Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:01:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://now.fordham.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/favicon.png Greco-Roman – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu 32 32 232360065 PHOTO ESSAY: Ancient Artifacts Represent Christianity as a New Creation https://now.fordham.edu/arts-and-culture/photo-essay-ancient-artifacts-represent-christianity-as-a-new-creation/ Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:22:05 +0000 http://news.fordham.sitecare.pro/?p=29202 The fifth-century was a time when Christian art tended toward pagan Greco-Roman images rather than images of Christ and the cross. Fordham has acquired nine mosaics discovered in an early Christian church in what is today’s Syria, adding them to its Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art and expanding the scope of the collection.

Depicted here and on page 1, two of the mosaics show the names of church officials and the benefactor who paid for the building’s construction. The remaining mosaics show animals, geometric shapes, and decorative borders typical of early visual imagery relating to Christian themes of new creation.

— Chris Gosier

Photos by Bruce Gilbert

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