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Early Christian and Byzantine Joslyn Art Museum SURVEY OF WESTERN ART HISTORY I Early Christian and Byzantine Art ambulatory mystery cult syncretism niche / blind niche orant / orant figure lunette catacombs gallery typology / typological prefiguration choir schism minaret martyrium pendentive altar squinch crucifix screen walls apse transubstantiation codex triumphal arch folios triumphal cross icon gabled roof iconic transept iconoclast cruciform iconophile tesserae sign / symbol mosaic Greek cross relic deesis Arch of Constantine, Rome 313 AD Marble 1 Dura Europos synagogue in Syria c. 245 Tempera on plaster Moses Giving Water to the Tweleve Tribes of Israel Dura Europos synagogue c. 245 2 Christ as the Good Shepherd Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome Early Christian, 2nd-3rd century Fresco 3 4 Early Christian sarcophagus Santa maria Antiqua, Rome 4th century marble Reconstruction diagram and plan of Old Saint Peter’s basilica, Rome 333-390 5 Roman Forum Christus-Sol, from the Christian Mausoleum of the Julii under Saint Peter’s Mid 3rd century Vault mosaic St. Paul outside the Walls, Rome Begun 385 Restored after a fire in 1823 6 Interior of the martyrium of Santa Costanza, Rome Early Christian, c. 350 Ambulatory ceiling of Santa Costanza, Rome Early Christian, c. 350 Mosaic Galla Placidia, Ravenna, c. 425-426 7 Interior of the mausoleum of Galla Placidia showing niche with two apostles and the Saint Lawrence mosaic, Ravenna c. 425-426 Christ as the Good Shepherd, the mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna c. 425-426 Mosaic Geometric border from the mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna c. 425-426 mosaic 8 Exterior of San Vitale, Ravenna 540-547 Plan of San Vitale, Ravenna 540-547 Interior of San Vitale looking east toward the apse, Ravenna 540-547 9 Choir ceiling, San Vitale, Ravenna c. 547 Mosaic Section of San Vitale, Ravenna Apse mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna 10 Detail of a capital, San Vitale, Ravenna, Byzantine, c. 540 Marble Court of Justinian Apse mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna Byzantine, c. 547 11 Detail, Court of Justinian Apse mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna c. 547 Court of Theodora, apse mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna c. 547 Detail, Court of Theodora San Vitale, Ravenna Byzantine, c. 547 12 Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (now Istanbul) Completed 537 Section of Hagia Sophia 13 Plan of Hagia Sophia Interior of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople Conversion to a mosque after 1453 Turkish invasion 14 The Transfiguration Church of Saint Catherine’s monastery. Mount Sinai, Egypt, Byzantine, c. 550-565 Mosaic Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife (left), and Joseph Interpreting Dreams in Prison (right), from the Vienna Genesis Early 6th century Illuminated manuscript 15 Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Felix and Augustus, from the Commodilla Catacomb, Rome 528 Fresco Saint Peter from the Church of Saint Catherine’s monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt 6th or 7th century 16 Monastery churches of Hosios Loukas, Greece c. 1020 Virgin and Child Enthroned, Katholikon, Hosios Loukas, Greece c. 1020 Apse mosaic Crucifixion, Katholikon, Hosios Loukas, Greece c. 1020 Mosaic 17 Harrowing of Hell, Katholikon, Hosios Loukas, Greece c. 1020 Mosaic Central dome and apse, Katholikon, Hosios Loukas, Greece c. 1020 Pantokrator, from the abbey church of Monreale, Palermo, Italy Before 1183 Mosaic 18 Christ, detail of a deësis mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople 13th century Incense burner in the shape of a domed building 12th century Gilded silver Barma and Postnik Saint Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow 1554-1560 19 Andrei Rublev Old Testament Trinity Early 15th century Panel painting 20.
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