Please read the question carefully and answer in complete sentences, using the slides as the data for your response.

Shown are two works from the Late Antique/Early Christian period, both created for Christian patrons, one from before the Edict of Tolerance, one from after. Identify them briefly -- if you're not sure, LOOK CAREFULLY and THINK ABOUT what you are seeing, which should help you to understand -- and compare, using what you see in them and what you know about each to answer the question:

How does Christian art change as a result of the Edict of Tolerance?

Slides shown were: on the left, view down nave to triumphal arch and apse with mosaics, Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, 432-440 CE; and on the right, Via Salaria Sarcophagus, late IIId cent. CE, with philosopher, orant figure, and Good Shepherd.

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