This is an overview of early Christian art and architecture in the Roman Empire and Byzantium.

1. Early Christianity

2. Rome

4. Old St. Peter’s
Begun 333 CE

6. Santa Constanza
c. 350 CE

11. Ambulatory Vault Mosaic:
Making Wine

13. Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
359 CE

15. The Binding of Isaac

16. Job; Adam and Eve

17. Christ Before Pontius Pilate

18. Christ Enthroned;
Christ Entering Jerusalem

19. Catacomb of Santi Pietro e
Marcellino: The Dome of Heaven
The Good Shepherd and
the Story of Jonah, 4th c. CE

22. The Byzantine Empire

25. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople
532-37 CE

29. First Golden Age of Byzantine Art
Under Emperor Justinian (r. 537-565)
And Empress Theodora

30. San Vitale, Ravenna
526-47 CE

35. Theophany with Christ
as the Redeemer

36. Theodora and Her Attendants, c. 547

37. Second Golden Age
of Byzantine Art

38. St. Mark’s Venice
Begun 1063

43. The Creation Dome

46. Madonna and Child Enthroned
c. 1270