Timeline of European Art and Music - The 5th Century (muted)
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 Published On Mar 25, 2023

0:00 - 400-420 - Unknown (Italian) - Christ between Sts Peter and Paul
The Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter are situated on the ancient Via Labicana in Rome. The fresco on the ceiling of a funeral chamber depicts Christ enthroned between Sts Peter and Paul who acclaim him. In the lower register the martyr saints venerated in this catacomb are seen praising Christ. Between the saints can be seen the Lamb of God on the summit of paradise

0:30 - 420s - Unknown (Italian)
Mosaic inscription
Shows one of the female figures framing the inscription in the Santa Sabina, Rome

1:00 - 422-432 - Unknown (Italian) - Santa Sabina
The exterior of the church, with its large windows made of selenite (a soft translucent crystal), not glass, looks much as it did when it was built in the 5th century

1:30 - 422-432 - Unknown (Italian) - Santa Sabina
The tall, spacious nave has twenty four columns of Proconnesian marble with perfectly matched Corinthian capitals and bases, which were reused from the Temple of Juno

2:00 - 425-450 - Unknown (Byzantine) - Mosaic decoration
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the detail shows doves drinking from vases

2:30 - 425-450 - Unknown (Byzantine) - Mosaic decoration
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the picture shows one of the lunette mosaics representing harts at the fountain of life

3:00 - Circa 400s - Unknown (Roman) - Fresco with a seated Venus
Restored as a personification of Rome, the so-called "Dea Barberini" (“Barberini goddess”)

3:30 - 425-450 - Unknown (Byzantine) - Mosaic decoration
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, shows one of the lunette mosaics representing the Good Shepherd

4:00 - 425-450 - Unknown (Byzantine) - Mosaic decoration
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, shows one of the lunette mosaics representing the Martyrdom of St Lawrence

4:30 - 425-450 - Unknown (Byzantine) - Mosaic decoration
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, St Lawrence from the Martyrdom of St Lawrence on one of the lunettes in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia

5:00 - 425-450 - Unknown (Byzantine) - Mosaic decoration
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, The lunette mosaic represents the martyrdom of St Lawrence

5:30 - 425-450 - Unknown (Byzantine) - Mosaic decoration
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the star-spangled vault with a cross in the middle, perhaps representing the dome of heaven. In the corners are the symbols of the Apostles

6:00 - 425-450 - Unknown (Italian) - Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
Interior from the entrance. The lunette mosaic represents the martyrdom of St Lawrence

6:30 - 425-450 - Unknown (Italian) - Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
One of the best-preserved Early Christian mural mosaics

7:00 - 430-432 - Unknown (Italian) - Wooden door (detail)
Shows one of the 18 surviving panels of the original wooden door in the Basilica of Santa Sabina. On the panel Elijah in a Chariot of Fire is depicted

7:30 - 430-432 - Unknown (Italian) - Wooden door - The Basilica of Santa Sabina.

8:00 - 430s - Unknown (Greek) - Quedlinburg Itala fragment

8:30 - 430-432 - Unknown (Italian) - Wooden door of Santa Sabina - The Basilica of Santa

9:00 - 432-440 - Unknown (Italian) - Bethlehem

9:30 - 432-440 - Unknown (Italian) - Crossing of the Red Sea

10:00 - 432-440 - Unknown (Italian) - Mosaic decoration

10:30 - 432-440 - Unknown (Italian) - Hospitality of Abraham

11:00 - 432-440 - Unknown (Italian) - Mosaic decoration

11:30 - 432-440 - Unknown (Italian) - Old Testament scenes

12:00 - 432-440 - Unknown (Italian) - Rachel returning from the fields

12:30 - 432-440 - Unknown (Italian) - Santa Maria Maggiore, nave decoration

13:00 - 432-440 - Unknown (Italian) - Scenes from the life of Joshua

13:30 - 432-440 - Unknown (Italian) - Scenes from the life of Moses

14:00 - 400s - Unknown (Italian) - San Lorenzo Maggiore

14:30 - 450 - Unknown (Italian) - Figure of a Prophet

15:00 - 400s - Unknown (Italian) - Santo Stefano Rotondo

15:30 - 450s - Unknown (Italian) - Orthodox Baptistery

16:00 - 400s - Unknown (Italian) - The Twelve Apostles' Sarcophagus

16:30 - 400s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Aristocratic Woman with her Children

17:00 - 400s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Aristocratic Woman with her Children

17:30 - 450s - Unknown (Italian) - Orthodox Baptistery

18:00 - 400s - Unknown (Italian) - San Lorenzo Maggiore - Christ as Sol Invictus.

18:30 - 400s - Unknown (Italian) - Apse decoration

19:00 - 450s - Unknown (Italian) - Orthodox Baptistery

19:30 - 450s - Unknown (Italian) - Orthodox Baptistery

20:00 - 490s - Unknown (Byzantine) - Arian Baptistery

20:30 - 490s - Unknown (Italian) - Vergilius Romanus

21:00 - 490s - Unknown (Italian) - Vergilius Romanus

21:30 - 490s - Unknown (Italian) - Vergilius Romanus

22:00 - 490s - Unknown (Italian) - Arian Baptistery

22:30 - 490s - Unknown (Italian) - Arian Baptistery

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