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Lecture 3
Late Antique - Byzantine
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/12/2011

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Term
[image]
Definition
12-15: Saint Michael the Archangel
early 6th century (early 500s)
probably Constantinople, Byzantine Empire


Ivory, 1’ 5” high
Right leaf of a diptych,
Byzantine
Term
attribute
Definition
standard item that identifies someone
Term
[image]
Definition
11-16: Anicia Juliana between Magnanimity and Prudence
ca. 512
made near Constantinople


1’ 3” high,
Page from the Vienna Dioskorides,
Byzantine
Term
personification
Definition
abstract idea in human form
Term
[image]
Definition
11-10 detail: re-used capital
second or third century
Santa Sabina, Rome - 422-432


Late Antiquity
Nave arcade,
Term
[image]
Definition
12-4 detail: capital
532-537
Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul)



Gallery,
Byzantine
Term
[image]
Definition
12-4: Hagia Sophia: interior toward entrance
532-537 and later
Constantinople (Istanbul)
Byzantine Empire
Term
[image]
Definition
12-4: Hagia Sophia: interior toward apse
532-537 and later
Constantinople (Istanbul)
Byzantine
Term
[image]
Definition
12-8: San Vitale: view to apse
526-547
Ravenna (Italy)
Byzantine
Term
[image]
Definition
12-9 detail: Stories of Abraham and Isaac
526-547
San Vitale, choir
Ravenna (Italy)


Mosaic
Term
[image]
Definition
12-9 detail: Christ in Majesty with angels and St. Vitalis
526-547
San Vitale, apse
Ravenna (Italy)
Mosaic
Term
[image]
Definition
12-10: Justinian, Bishop Maximianus and attendants
ca. 547
San Vitale, Apse mosaic
Ravenna (Italy)
Byzantine
Term
[image]
Definition
12-11. Theodora and attendants
ca. 547
San Vitale, Mosaic, north wall of apse
Ravenna (Italy)
Byzantine
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