Armando Alexandre dos SANTOS; Ricardo da COSTA

Original title: O Reino do Espírito na transcendência da imagem de Cristo. O Bom Pastor na Arte Paleocristã (sécs. III-IV)

Published in The Kingdom of the Spirit

Keywords: Good Shepherd, History of Art, Paleochristian Art, Sarcophagus.

The aim of the work is to analyze the iconographic theme of the Good Shepherd (Jo 10, 6-15) in Paleochristian Art (III-VI centuries) and the reasons for its popularity. Our methodology will be comparative: documents and images from the same period, with an interpretative emphasis on carved scenes in three Roman sarcophagi from the 3rd and 4th centuries.