The Dark Ages: An Age of Light

Season 1 Episode 1: The Clash of the Gods

Nov 27, 2012NR7.9

In the first episode Waldemar Januszczak looks at how Christianity emerged into the Roman Empire as an artistic force in the third and fourth centuries. But with no description of Jesus in the Bible, how were Christians to represent their God? Waldemar explores how Christian artists drew on images of ancient gods for inspiration and developed new forms of architecture to contain their art. Full Synopsis