Christ dividing the sheep from the goats. Mosaic. Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, 6th century.
Christ dividing the sheep from the goats. Mosaic. Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, 6th century.
Detail of sarcophagus lid with Christ separating the sheep from the goats. Roman, 3rd or 4th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Mosaics, Sant’Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, 6th century. On the arch above the apse: Twelve lambs (apostles) converging toward central medallion with Christ. Below, in the apse mosaic: Saint Apollinaris praying for the faithful (twelve lambs).
Shepherds with sheep and goats, apse mosaic, San Clemente, Rome, 1130s.
Zhao Mengfu, Sheep and goat, ink on paper. Yuan dynasty (c. 1300). Freer Gallery of Art.
Storage jar decorated with mountain goat (ibex). Chalcolithic, central Iran, 3800-3700 BC. Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Terms:
Matthew: probaton (a sheep) eriphos (a young goat)
Dies Irae: Inter oves locum præsta, Et ab hædis me sequestra.
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