Teaching Workshop: Early Christian Iconography: Between Word and Image

The teaching workshop performs at least a double "professionalizing" function:
1. allows you to acquire a very effective teaching tool for teaching Antiquity and Late Antiquity, relying on an element - the pervasive use of the image - very close to cultural relevance;
2. introduces the iconography of a documentary repertoire - that of "Christian art" - of essential utility for any future profession in the protection, promotion and dissemination of the national historical-artistic Heritage.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to collate effectively the first Christian visual documentation with the contemporaneous early Christian literature. He will also be able to recognize the main critical approaches used in the study of paleochristian visual culture and he will use the main methodological tools developed in them. Finally, he will prove that he knows how to extract the ground contents of this type of document.