Images of God Elsen

Overview●Apollo●Buddha●Christ

oChrist as good shepherdoChrist as kingoChrist as judgeoBeau Dieu

●The deaths of Christ and Buddha●Activity

Apollo"the embodiment of the Hellenic spirit"

●brings law and order●first Olympic victor●transition boyhood to manhood●beauty of every sort●patron of arts●....

=> how to portray all of this??

Archaic Apollo

Apollo Tenea. c. 550 B.C. Marble, height 1.52 m. Glyptothek, Munich.

Classical Apollo

Apollo. Roman copy after Greek original of c. 460 B.C. Marble, height 1.97 m. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel.

Hellenistic Apollo

Apollo Belvedere. Roman copy after Greek original of late 4th century B.C. Marble, 2.24 m. Vatican Museums, Rome.

Buddha

Christ as the Good Shepherd & Teacher

Christ as King●Roman imperial portraits

●Rank and dignity●Typological art●Grave and noble features

●Majestic bearing●Correct gestures●Appropriate garments

Bust of Christ, 350 CE. Ceiling painting, 60 x 72 cm. Catacomb of

Domitilla, Rome.

Christ as King

Sarcophagus of Junius, 359 CE, Marble, 1.17 x 2.44 m, Vatican Grottoes, Rome.

●4th century●Church - Imperial support

●Innovational central scenes

●Imperial imagerytransferred to Christ

Christ as King●6th century●ByzantineEmperorJustinian

●Reflects transition fromthe historical tothe theological

Apse, Interior San Vitale, Ravenna, 526 - 47 CE.

Christ as judge●Last judgment●6th century●Gospel: Matthew (25:31-34)

●Showing literallySt. Matthew'smetaphor

●"Sacramental dignity and transcendence"

Last Judgment: Separating the Sheep from the Goats. c. 493 - 526 CE. Mosaic. Sant'

Apollinare Nuova, Ravenna.

Beau Dieu

Beau Dieu, Amiens Cathedral, 13th century.

● 13th Century

● More accessible

● Humanization

● "the Handsome God"

The death of Christ and Buddha