第157页 8 Western art in the melting pot

We have taken the story of Western art up to the period of Constantine..
我们前面讲到康斯坦丁大帝时代的西方艺术

patience and perseverance
In pictures like these we see the emergence of a new medieval style which made it possible for art to do something that neither ancient Oriental nor classical art had done: the Egyptians had largely drawn what they 'knew' to exist, the Greeks what they 'saw', in the Middle Ages the artist also learned to express in his picture what he 'felt'. One cannot do justice to any medieval irk of art without keeping this purpose in mind. For these artists were not out to create a convincing likeness of nature or to make beautiful things --- they wanted to convey to their brothers in the faith the content and the message of the sacred story.