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3. Early Christian Art: The Eastern Provinces of the Empire and the Foundation of Constantinople
John Beckwith
Description: Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
The early Christians had no holy city nor did the cult for the Holy Places develop for some considerable time. After the revolt of the Zealots the Emperor Titus ordered the complete destruction of Jerusalem, the holy city of the Jews, in the year 70. Whatever survived remained as an appendix to the new garrison town which was laid out like a Roman camp and renamed Aelia Capitolina. The Christian community, which had moved to Pella at the beginning of the siege, returned to the new town to …
Author
John Beckwith
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright©1970, 1979 by John Beckwith
Related print edition pages: pp.56-77
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00042.004
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14008
Chapter subject tags:Art, Early ChristianChristian art and symbolismChristianity and culture--HistoryChristianity and politics--HistoryRome--History--Constantine I, the Great, 306-337Jerusalem--HistoryChurch history

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3. Early Christian Art: The Eastern Provinces of the Empire and the Foundation of Constantinople