The (expensive but beautiful) coffee-table book of the exhibition gives a bit more detail about the continuity between the pagan and Christian artwork and indeed, the one turns straight into the other, with substitutions like the good shepherd for Hercules. I guess this kind of thing is exactly why there's a notion of “late antiquity” rather than seeing a sharper shift from the classical to the medieval.
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Date: 2008-11-27 07:37 pm (UTC)