| Title: | Christ Performing Miracles |
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| Notes: | "images appeared on the sarcophagi,...standard portrayals of Jesus as healer and wonder-worker remained consistent. Alternating with images from the Hebrew scriptures are representations of Jesus healing (the paralytic, the man born blind, the woman with the issue of blood, etc.) and working wonders (e.g., changing water to wine at Cana, multiplying the loaves and fishes, and raising Lazarus). However, many new iconographic themes appeared on these expensive funerary monuments in the mid-fourth century. Among these new themes is Christ handing a scroll (the "new law", the traditio legis) to his apostles...The gesture of passing a scroll is based upon the traditional gesture of the transfer of imperial authority or power from the Roman political scene. Christ here is delegating his authority to his apostles -- his earthly magistrates -- from his position in heaven." (Esler, 56) |
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| Date: | 3rd-4th centuries |
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| Building: | Vatican City. Direzione generale dei musei
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| Object/Function: | Sarcophagus |
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| Country: | Vatican City
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| Scripture: | Matthew 9:2-8
Luke 5:17-26
Mark 2:1-12
Isaiah 42:1-9
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| General Subject: | Healing
Law
Authority
Miracles
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 73C422
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| Copyright Source: | Image donated by J. Patout Burns and Robin M. Jensen |
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| Copyright Permission: | Donor must be contacted for permission. |
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| Attribution: | Christ Performing Miracles, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=51996 [retrieved April 20, 2021]. Original source: Image donated by J. Patout Burns and Robin M. Jensen. |
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| Record Number: | 51996
Last Updated: 2021-02-16 19:34:49
Record Created: 2007-07-18 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Unit:
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Early Christian world, Volume 2 |
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| Author: | Esler, Philip Francis |
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| Publisher: | Routledge |
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| Date: | 2001 |
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