When christianity first arose it was without images it had only words only script images were first introduced into the Christians Assembly rooms where they were concentrated at the far end of the simple hole told the clays yes but once the walls were adorned with images they told a story. How did these images arise out of these stories come a badge and what role did angels play in the stories of conflict between power and order heaven and. Angels on the messengers of the one god of whom no image exists and upon who no schumann will ever set eyes people worship gods words words that were brought by angels who were closest to him. They are spiritual beings like him beams of light. The angels proclaim what god wishes to tell people. That is their calling. They were imagined to be all new present always talking guiding advising and judging people and so they became a central theme of the pictorial history that week old western alt. Christianity became the state religion of the roman empir
day said emirati was originally a burial place beyond the city wools the whole complex with its cathedral baptistry and compost some toll was bigger. in thirteen hundred. zero zero a have the campo son joe was the knowledge a cemetery of the christian middle ages and that s a place where death damnation and redemption played a prominent role here we find a monumental representation of the last judgment. this powerful fresco must have shocked its contemporaries it begins with the last judgment under ruffo christ who reveals his wounds and flings his outrage like lightning in the direction of hal this anger is offset by the gentle virgin mary to his left. beneath them is an angel with us at high level with the viewer is the warrior archangel michael with his sword.
plus four and the fact that they are placed above the virgins in the martyrs expresses their place in the hierarchy and they re all foraging within christendom . even higher up scenes portraying christ s passion even this position denotes hierarchy order here in revenge of the hierarchy is formulated and translated into a system of images. the beginning and end of this mural are reserved for the key figures of holy scripture mary and christ they are positioned formally alongside each of them are two angels that look out directly on the viewer. the angels are the courtroom this whole body guards of mary and jesus christ. are here.
as an old man received a commission from pope clement the nine to design the entrance to the cast as some tangent of. the building was the most a limb of emperor hadrian and the triumphant entrance way over the bridge was lined with statues of the classical dogs of victory many replace these with angels converting a pagan monument and who christian. the angels honed the instruments of the passion. in their hands the road becomes a symbolic way of the cross or via dolorosa like the one walked by the pilgrims in jerusalem many converted it into a triumphal procession and the angels bear with. as to it with the symbols of christ s passion. the angel with
a parade and looked up into the capitals with a vivid illustrations of the evil in all its incarnations. the second temptation of christ taken from the gospel of luke makes it clear what s happening here christ s determination to resist heresy and back to. the suicide of judas shows what happens when someone turns away from god the monumentally impressive knave signified to the believers that only god s words could help against old least temptations and human weaknesses. hand. to tap home. was a habit heading southwards with the mansions just visible on the horizon lies one of the most important cities of the middle ages the peace of the modern