2. In the fourth century, some Christian couples
memorialized their holy marriage.
They commissioned beautiful double sarcophagi
to commemorate their marriage even in death.
3. Their sculptors carved a portrait of the couple
in a medallion in the center of their sarcophagus.
The wife was on the left.
Her right hand was usually on her husbandâs arm.
34. Vatican Museum plaque for the Sarcophagus
âof the two brothersâ in March 2014:
â. . . the female figure on the left, who was to represent the
bride, took on male features during the portrait execution.â
35. Vatican Museum plaque for the Sarcophagus
âof the two brothersâ in March 2014:
Hold on! Some early Christian texts said a woman
put on menâs clothes to evangelize. But no text said a
woman grew a beard or became bald like a man!
49. Art as Text
By Ally Kateusz
In honor of Bernadette Brooten
Hinweis der Redaktion
Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque. Also, here the apostle is depicted with a full head of hair, so is generally thought to be Peter. Photo copyright: Kateusz
Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 300-325 in Vatican Museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 300-325 in Vatican Museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque.
Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque.
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Unnamed sarcophagus dated 325-350 in Vatican Museum plaque.
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Unnamed double sarcophagus dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Found during the excavations of the Callixtus Catacomb.
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Unnamed double sarcophagus dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Found during the excavations of the Callixtus Catacomb.
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Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum.
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Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum.
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Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum.
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Quote from Vatican Museum plaque in September 2005
Quote from Vatican Museum plaque in September 2005
Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum.
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Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Scene identification from museum plaque.
Photo copyright: Kateusz
Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Scene identification from museum plaque.
Photo copyright: Kateusz
Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Scene identification from museum plaque.
Photo copyright: Kateusz
Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Peter is identified in the scene identification in the museum plaque, but here the apostle is balding, so perhaps we cannot be certain it is intended to represent Peter since Paul, depicted bald, is also shown with his jailers on the Junius Bassius sarcophagus as well as the Tree sarcophagus from the Via Salaria, both in the Vatican Museum. Photo copyright: Kateusz
Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Scene identification from museum plaque says this is Peter, but again, here the apostle is balding . . . Photo copyright: Kateusz
Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum. Scene identification from museum plaque.
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Double sarcophagus âof Two Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum.
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Double sarcophagus of âTwo Brothersâ dated 325-250 on the plaque in the Vatican Museum.
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