studying for my art exam...this is amazing. thanks!

The reason why the images of Christ Pantocrator tend to look sorrowful or stern is that the artists were trying to capture features they were seeing on the facial image of the Shroud of Turin. It had since 944 been on display in Constantinople and was the basis of the idea of icons αχειροποίητα, "made without hands".

Exactly what I am hoping to find! Excellent !

Great lecture and artwork

This is so great. Love Gresham college lectures.

Excellent introductory lecture.

Am I the only one who got a giggle out of Moses having to remove his FEAT on hallowed ground? That had to hurt worse than my belly laugh! ;-) I'm sure he just misspoke... bless his heart! ;-)

Great lecture. Thanks !

Excellent lecture.

Concerning the Jonah story, the iconographer knows the story better than Harris. The Bible says that the gourd vine grows up over Jonah's head (presumably on the trellis, or booth that Jonah built) and gives him welcome shade: So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. -- Jonah 4:5-6 It is clear that the artist deliberately intended to focus on that scene and not the next one when the vine shrivels and the shade is gone and Jonah is unhappy again.

Finally some history of the art from my religion

First rate lecture.

36:40 is not an initial, its a XP expressed in a single letter (the two right arms forming the rounding of the P)

"I apologize for finding the seating terribly comfortable."

No explanation of the halo or the reason that angels are depicted with wings. Second Council of Nicaea 787? Biblical prohibition on images ?

That image at 9:18, anyone know what it's called?

I would propose it is possible the oldest surviving Christian art is in the frescoes in the hand-carved churches in the Cappadocian Mountains in Turkey.

why r u studying it here in youtube if you hate it?

Hehe of couse the earliest art was on cave walls. But where is the earliest surviving Christian art?

lol the earliest surviving art certainly is not in rome.

they took that out of the bibles. Maccabees 3:48- 52... explain that!!!lol

teach him how to speak "Sinai" nor Si-ni-eye!, also endless repetition

So let us just keep ignoring Galatians 3:1

Lol listen to this mess "limbo"??? Man I wish I could have found a video that just showed these pictures without this dude's Catholic religion influence inserted

Very Boring. No Visigoth depictions of Jesus or the early roman depictions. No Harry Potter or Jesus as roman god. He knows of this art and left it out.........

Please leave.

According to the bible...he's a so-called blk man. Just ask John in Rev. If you don't believe him, read the book of Daniel. Those pagans painting the book in the likeness of their images... Oh, wait! 'THEY'