From Persecution to Patronage The Development of Early Christian Art | Kairos Global | March 2025

Art historian and researcher, Barnett Alex Varghese takes us on an artistic and historic journey through Christian Art. In this article he begins with the first century.

Archaeologically, evidence is limited about the presence of artefacts in the first century of early Christianity (Paleo Christianity). While it is not entirely clear how these artefacts functioned, their rarity does not mean that images were not used. Christianity in its nascent stage, before being an established religion, spread rapidly through the Greco-Roman region thanks to the efforts of apos…

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