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...religion ever started with a full-blown iconography. The earliest Christian work was crude and secretive, a code of graffiti???crosses and fish scratched on walls. To enrich that, to give its visual discourse a dignity to match imperial power, Christian art needed pagan symbolism. Once its early frenzies over idolatry had been resolved, the new religion picked over the bones of antiquity, preserving many of its forms in doctrinal art but switching their meaning...
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