What characterized basilica art in this period? Wilken helpfully writes: “Christian art tends toward narrative, the telling of a story, the depiction of events from biblical history … so it was to this history, and the persons and events who appear in the biblical stories that Christians turned when they wished to decorate their churches.”50 Jensen adds that church images were especially concerned with conveying a complete narrative; not merely a single figure or element of a story.51 For example,