Catacombs of the Via Latina, Rome – (300s AD)
(view from a cubiculum, north room:  Alcestis before Hercles and Cerberus)

Wall painting in the Catacomb of Priscilla, outside of Rome
Benedettine di Priscilla

Painting of Jesus in a Roman catacomb - 300s

Mausoleum of Helen and Constantia, daughters of Constantine – (300s)
Rome, Church of Santa Constanza

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus – (c. AD 389) marble
Rome, Grotte Vaticane

The Roman Emperor Constantine - the first imperial patron of the Christian religion (early 300s)

Icon of the Virgin and Child – with Saint Theodore and Saint George (500s) encaustic on panel
Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt

Christ the Saviour (Pantocrator) (500s) encaustic on panel
Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt

Christ and Saint Menas. A 6th-century (500s) Coptic icon from Bawit, Egypt
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Saint Peter (500s) encaustic on panel
Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt

The Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

The apse of the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

The Emperor Justinian and his court (mid 500s) mosaic
Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna

Empress Theodora and her court – detail (mid 500s) mosaic
Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna

Sant' Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna

Interior of Sant' Apollinare in Classe

Chair of Bishop Maximien, Constantinople – (mid-500s) ivory
Ravenna, Museo Arcivescovile

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (late 500s)

Hagia Sophia - interior
Miles Hodges

David and His Flock – Psalter of Paris (900s) paint on parchment
from Constantinople
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Nativity (1000s) mosaic
Monastery of Hosios Loukas, Greece

Detail of the Pala d'Oro (the archangel Michael) – (early 1100s) gold, enamel and gemstones
Venice, Basilica of Saint Mark

The Ladder of Divine Ascent, showing monks ascending to Jesus in Heaven, top right
Saint Catherine's Monastery - Mount Sinai, Egypt

Christ Praying at Gethsemane (1215-1220) mosaic
Venice, Basilica of Saint Mark

Christ Pantocrator (c. 1180-1194) mosaic
Apse of the cathedral of Monreale, Sicily

Icon of the Virgin ("Theotokos") of Saint Vladimir – (1100s - 1200s) tempera on panel
Moscow, Tretiakov Gallery

Miles H. Hodges - 2018