03-31-2006, 11:16 PM
Avete,
When I look at imperial art from about the 4th C. AD onward, I notice the appearance of haloes behind the heads of the Emperors and gods.
These of course began as pagan symbols and were eventually adopted exclusively by Christians. However, even after this happened, for many centuries haloes were still employed in secular art (e.g. the mosaic of Justinian at Ravenna)
I have two questions :
1.) When do haloes first appear in Roman art ?
2.)When do they stop being used in art with purely secular subjects ?
![[Image: K2.8Poseidon.jpg]](http://www.theoi.com/image/K2.8Poseidon.jpg)
![[Image: Ec5.jpg]](http://faculty.fullerton.edu/bstarr/Ec5.jpg)
![[Image: byzantine_justiniandet.gif]](http://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/art105/img/byzantine_justiniandet.gif)
When I look at imperial art from about the 4th C. AD onward, I notice the appearance of haloes behind the heads of the Emperors and gods.
These of course began as pagan symbols and were eventually adopted exclusively by Christians. However, even after this happened, for many centuries haloes were still employed in secular art (e.g. the mosaic of Justinian at Ravenna)
I have two questions :
1.) When do haloes first appear in Roman art ?
2.)When do they stop being used in art with purely secular subjects ?
Jaime
