Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connected World
A website (home) with photographs by Genevra Kornbluth, aligned with the art works in the book.

Chapter 2: Fourth and Fifth Centuries
Information about specific objects is given in the linked pages of the Kornbluth Photography Historical Archive,
and abbreviations explained.
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2-1: coin of Constantine 		Click to enlarge.
2-1: diadem 		Click to enlarge.
2-1: Christogram 		Click to enlarge.
2-1: battle between Maxentius and Conatantine (7-15) 		Click to enlarge.
2-2: Lateran Baptistery, modern state
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2-2: stags drinking water of life 		Click to enlarge.
2-4: mosaic (Galla Placidia) 		Click to enlarge.
2-4: Sun as charioteer 		Click to enlarge.
2-5: Saint Peter 		Click to enlarge.
2-7: seasons sarcophagus
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2-7: treading grapes 		Click to enlarge.
2-8: Jewish funerary imagery 		Click to enlarge.
2-9: bowl with gold-glass 		Click to enlarge.
2-9: gold-glass 		Click to enlarge.
2-9: Daniel in the lions' den
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2-10: Projecta Casket 		Click to enlarge.
2-10: Roman period metalwork 		Click to enlarge.
2-10: Venus 		Click to enlarge.
2-11: Ascension ivory 		Click to enlarge.
2-11: early Resurrection imagery
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2-11: Ascension of Christ (3-20) 		Click to enlarge.
2-11, 13: ivory carving around 400 		Click to enlarge.
2-13: crossbow brooch as on Stilicho: Paris 2nd half of 4th c., gold plate, Musée Carnavalet Paris AM 1089 		Click to enlarge.
2-14: Vermand treasure 		Click to enlarge.
2-14: metalwork
around 400
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2-15: 5th-century brooches 		Click to enlarge.
2-15: large brooches shown worn 		Click to enlarge.
2-15: garnet stone 		Click to enlarge.
2-15: Odin?, or Freya
or sorceress, silver
c.900, Lejre 		Click to enlarge.
2-16: granulation
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2-16: filigree: bird of prey brooch casing, gold/garnet, c.550-early 7th c., Morgan 2012.2:55 		Click to enlarge.
2-17: gold bracteate, 5th c. Denmark, prob. Tyr overcoming Fenris, Hermitage OH-З-Aз-5837 		Click to enlarge.
2-17: barbarian with hair knot, from Szöny (Roman Brigetio), HNM 		Click to enlarge.
2-17: runes 		Click to enlarge.
2-17: Roman
medallion with coin
of Valens, Trier 364-
78, SMBMünz 18200869
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2-18: Sasanian art 		Click to enlarge.
2-18: hunting 		Click to enlarge.
2-21: prepared throne with dove and angels, marble, 5th to 6th c., Louvre Ma 3679 		Click to enlarge.
2-22: Christian papyrus:
Christ and Apostles
during storm at sea,
Oxyrhynchus papyrus,
313-640, Florence MA 		Click to enlarge.
2-22: Carolingian wooden diptych from Dorestad, Leiden. For other views see Leiden.
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2-22: Roman majuscule 		Click to enlarge.
2-23: evangelist symbols 		Click to enlarge.
2-24: Neonian Baptistery 		Click to enlarge.
2-24: Lateran Baptistery, modern state 		Click to enlarge.
2-24: Baptism of Christ
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2-25: Jewish iconography 		Click to enlarge.
2-25: Sun 		Click to enlarge.
2-28: St. Symeon 		Click to enlarge.
2-30: pilgrims' ampullae 		Click to enlarge.
2-31: St. Symeon plaque