Early Christian Art
To begin with, early Christians considered art as an important form of personal and cultural expression. They believed that artistic forms and motifs could be useful to communicate and spread their Christian faith, and they borrowed many of these forms and motifs from the Roman art that was around them (A. Troolin, 2016).
From an artistic perspective, early Christian artists copied their Roman counterparts in creating forms such as frescoes, carving detailed relief sculptures resembling 3D pictures, designing impressive mosaics, and producing decorative marble tombs called sarcophagi. In terms of artistic motifs, they also borrowed some figures and changed the meaning of them. Some are the shepherd figure, the philosopher figure, the law-giver
From an artistic perspective, early Christian artists copied their Roman counterparts in creating forms such as frescoes, carving detailed relief sculptures resembling 3D pictures, designing impressive mosaics, and producing decorative marble tombs called sarcophagi. In terms of artistic motifs, they also borrowed some figures and changed the meaning of them. Some are the shepherd figure, the philosopher figure, the law-giver