Art, religion and narrative: a comparison of Early Christian and Early Buddhist Indian Art by Elsner, J

“…In particular I compare images that conflate different times from the arts of each religion – a typological juxtaposition of Old and New Testaments in a fourth century Roman sarcophagus found in southern France and the thematic juxtaposition of a scene from the Buddha’s final life with ones from his earlier in-carnations as recounted in the Jātaka tales on a probably third-century CE frieze from a stūpa in southern India. …”