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20 WESTERN ART AND THE NEW ERA
mother with her little one in her arms. It is the por-
trait of an earnest woman, but the unconventional pose
robs it of all the religious feeling we are accustomed to
look for in a religious painting. Christianity, however,
Fig. 4. Early Christian Art from the Catacombs.
Madonna and Child
was too alive a force in the world not to develop its own
art, after it felt the need of utilizing it, which resulted in
the first great expression of the Byzantine. This reached
its greatest flowering in the 6th Century, culminating in
a second between the 10th and 12th Centuries, as is illus-
trated here (Fig. 5), representing the Byzantine concep-
tion of the Madonna and Child deified with the Apostles
mother with her little one in her arms. It is the por-
trait of an earnest woman, but the unconventional pose
robs it of all the religious feeling we are accustomed to
look for in a religious painting. Christianity, however,
Fig. 4. Early Christian Art from the Catacombs.
Madonna and Child
was too alive a force in the world not to develop its own
art, after it felt the need of utilizing it, which resulted in
the first great expression of the Byzantine. This reached
its greatest flowering in the 6th Century, culminating in
a second between the 10th and 12th Centuries, as is illus-
trated here (Fig. 5), representing the Byzantine concep-
tion of the Madonna and Child deified with the Apostles