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Obverse: Titus seated on chair, holding laurel branch; before him a tripod, behind him a shield. Below rocks.
Reverse: The Coliseum seen from above. Four stories with columns. To the right a two-stores building, to the left the meta sudens.

This fresco of Adam and Eve in the garden is instantly recognizable to anyone who is familiar with the scene from later centuries of Christian art. Within the catacomb, there is a mixture of pagan (including a representation of Orpheus playing a…

The Ambrosian Iliad, also called the Ilias Picta, is the oldest (and only ancient) surviving illustrated manuscript of Homer’s Iliad. Along with the Vatican Vergil (see Module 1) and the Vergilius Romanus, it is one of three extant examples of…

Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg),
Knight, Death, and the Devil. Print, 1513.

Harvard Art Museums, G1112