the first step towards a self-contained christian iconography of angels didn't take place in rome in the fourth century a.d. the roman empire collapsed into two hall vhs rome and the western part of the empire was overrun by the goths then reconquered by eastern roman by xantia in the mid six century rome became a provincial city of the buys and time empire with red bama as its capital. this is where the first systematic pictorial history of the still young christendom as a synthesis of greek philosophy and the christian doctrine of salvation was developed. private love as it is of its eyes a simple with the greatest height of the how the number three is normally reserved as a symbol of the day it is this but in the old testament we also have angel often it