Pobożne chrześcijanki czekają na zmartwychwstanie – wizerunki kobiet w rzymskim malarstwie katakumbowym
Pious Christian Women Awaiting the Resurrection: Images of Women in Roman Catacomb Painting

Summary/Abstract: In Roman catacomb paintings, the preferred form of self-presentation, and undoubtedly also of commemoration, of deceased Christian women, was to present them in a praying position – near the loculi and arcosolia, at almost every step of the way, one could encounter female figures (over time more and more individual and expressive), who prayed by raising their hands upwards or extending them in imitation of Jesus’s posture on the cross. The prayer gesture, also displayed in portraits in the form of busts, was to convince people of the piety (pietas) that characterised these deceased Christian women during their lives, and which allowed them to hope that thanks, to Christ-the Good Shepherd they would be resurrected and achieve eternal life, where they would continue in their incessant prayer (praise? thanksgiving? pleading?).

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