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Reception and Reinterpretation of the Ancient Symbols by Early Christianity
BELATKOVÁ, Martina
This Thesis refers to ancient iconography themes and symbols, which were received by early Christian Art. Primaly, it concerns the reception of form. By means of analysing ancient content and context the paper tries to find a parallel between ancient and christian motives. In this way it intend to answer the question why a concrete theme was taken over. In case the reinterpretation is possible, the thesis offers the interpretation based on biblical theology. This volume presents motives from the Christian catacombs of Rome and also motives derivated from Roman triumph Art, dated to the first centuries.

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