Constantine, Christianity, and Greco-Roman Culture

Pagan Piety:  Diocletian and Colleagues Performing a Sacrifice

A New Era:  Emperor Constantine

The Milvian Bridge, Rome

What did he see?

Constantine's Vision in Later Imagination

The Arch of Constantine

Coin of Constantine with dedication to "The Unconquerable Sun" on reverse

Map of Constantinople

Basilicas:  A New use for an old form

Outline of Old St. Peter's

Outline of Basilica in Bethlehem: Church of the Nativity

Interior of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome

Funeral Stele: the "Woman with a Veil"                                          Wall painting (Rome, Catacomb of Priscilla)

Images of the "Good Shepherd"

A fresco in the catacomb of Marcellinus (left); an ivory figure (right)

Christ as the Good Shepherd (Rome, Catacomb of San Callisto, crypt of Lucina)

Bust of Christ (Rome, Catacomb of Comodilla)