Agnus Dei
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Store
- Inventory
- PV 09752
- Material and technique
- Bronze, full casting, dark brown patina
- Author
- Paleochristian School
- Dating
- 4th century
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 6 x 2.2 cm.
- Origin
- Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo (1936)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
The tiny bronze depicts Jesus in the guise of a Paschal Lamb. As is repeatedly declared in the New Testament, ‘Jesus is the Lamb of God’, and as a result he is frequently figured as a Lamb on the walls of churches. There are great number of quotations and comments in the texts of the Church Fathers.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
F. Hermanin, Il Palazzo di Venezia, Rome 1948, p. 297; A. Sanatangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 7e
