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Painting in the Early Byzantine Empire


<em>Christ
as the Good Shepherd</em>

Christ as the Good Shepherd

This mosaic from the mid-fifth century is an example of a “generic” beardless Christ, as he might have appeared in contemporaneous icons. Mausoleum of Galla Placidia. Ravenna, Italy. c. 450.

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