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Images of God Elsen
Overview●Apollo●Buddha●Christ
oChrist as good shepherdoChrist as kingoChrist as judgeoBeau Dieu
●The deaths of Christ and Buddha●Activity
Apollo"the embodiment of the Hellenic spirit"
●brings law and order●first Olympic victor●transition boyhood to manhood●beauty of every sort●patron of arts●....
=> how to portray all of this??
Archaic Apollo
Apollo Tenea. c. 550 B.C. Marble, height 1.52 m. Glyptothek, Munich.
Classical Apollo
Apollo. Roman copy after Greek original of c. 460 B.C. Marble, height 1.97 m. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel.
Hellenistic Apollo
Apollo Belvedere. Roman copy after Greek original of late 4th century B.C. Marble, 2.24 m. Vatican Museums, Rome.
Buddha
Christ as the Good Shepherd & Teacher
Christ as King●Roman imperial portraits
●Rank and dignity●Typological art●Grave and noble features
●Majestic bearing●Correct gestures●Appropriate garments
Bust of Christ, 350 CE. Ceiling painting, 60 x 72 cm. Catacomb of
Domitilla, Rome.
Christ as King
Sarcophagus of Junius, 359 CE, Marble, 1.17 x 2.44 m, Vatican Grottoes, Rome.
●4th century●Church - Imperial support
●Innovational central scenes
●Imperial imagerytransferred to Christ
Christ as King●6th century●ByzantineEmperorJustinian
●Reflects transition fromthe historical tothe theological
Apse, Interior San Vitale, Ravenna, 526 - 47 CE.
Christ as judge●Last judgment●6th century●Gospel: Matthew (25:31-34)
●Showing literallySt. Matthew'smetaphor
●"Sacramental dignity and transcendence"
Last Judgment: Separating the Sheep from the Goats. c. 493 - 526 CE. Mosaic. Sant'
Apollinare Nuova, Ravenna.
Beau Dieu
Beau Dieu, Amiens Cathedral, 13th century.
● 13th Century
● More accessible
● Humanization
● "the Handsome God"
The death of Christ and Buddha