Christian Art Sarcophagus: funeral container for a corpse – Resurrection images absent = mysterious religion – Expensive! – Roman Christians Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus 359 CE (Vatican City)

Paintings The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci, 1498 (Milan, Italy) – Roman Catholic Church – Helps depict figures or explain scenes from the Bible – For the illiterate La Pietá Michelangelo, 1499 (Vatican City) Sculpture

Icons: flat panel depiction of a holy being or object – Eastern Orthodox Church – Canvas, metal, stone, cloth, mosaic… – Follows the commandment to not make “graven images” Black Madonna of Częstochowa 14 th century (Częstochowa, Poland)

Steeple: tall tower on a church, usually topped by a cross – Attempts to reach into the heavens – Guiding lights for the community First Presbyterian Church of Caldwell 18 th century (Caldwell, NJ)

Cruciform Architecture – Roman Catholic Church – The ceiling of many churches or cathedrals are in the shape of a cross St. Patrick’s Cathedral 1878 (New York, NY)

Islamic Art Dome: traditional roof structure – Cosmic shelter – Royalty – Direction of Prayer The Sacred Mosque (Mecca, Saudi Arabia)

Minarets: tall spire with onion-shaped crown – Call to prayer – Direction of prayer – Air conditioning Twin Minarets The Sacred Mosque (Mecca, Saudi Arabia)

Islamic calligraphy: artistic practice of writing – Arabic language – Cannot represent God with images – Contains messages from the Koran Timbuktu Manuscripts Calligraphy in Arabic depicting astronomy and mathematics (Timbuktu, Mali)

World Religions Connections What World Religion does this represent? Why? Wait…what religion?

Minaret of Jesus Great Mosque of Damascus (Damascus, Syria)

Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)

St. Peter’s Basilica (Vatican City)

Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem, Israel)