Color Plates

This famous crucifixion shows Mary Magdalene as a co-sufferer with Christ, collapsing in a swoon, and John the Baptist as a dispassionate interpreter, pointing his finger to identify the sacrificed Lamb of God on the cross.

(source: http://www.msa.mmu.ac.uk/continuity/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/crucifixion1.jpg)

With Judgment, master of Dreux Budé, Flemish, 15th century.

This is another example of the Calvary images discussed in Saving Paradise, 260-61, 308-310, 312-13, 320.

(source: http://blog-by-the-sea.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/14/crucifixion_the_dreux_budi_master.jpg)

Chora Church, 13th c. Istanbul.

See Saving Paradise, 194-95.

(souce: http://www.travellinkturkey.com/istanbul/chora/chora_mosaic28.jpg)

Entire apse.

The St. Clemente apse image shows a tree of life composed of spiraling green branches which hold scenes of daily life, animals and birds, and abundant fruit. The crucifixion at the center was added after the 11th century. Though the mosaic has been restored and altered numerous times, the tree of life is believed to be original and to date to the earliest centuries of Christian mosaic art. Similar spirals appear in Ravenna’s fourth to sixth century mosaics, and in the very old Laterano baptistery in Rome.

(source: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/143314293_dd5538e4d8.jpg?v=1173632746)

Istanbul, Turkey. Columns with leaves.