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11/06/2007

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what is the Edict of Milan
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gave religious tolerance in rome in 313 by constantine
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[image]
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Good Shepherd, Orants, and The Story of Jonah, Catacomb of Sts Pietro and

Marcellino, late 3rd-early 4thc

 

Early Christian Art 

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[image]
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Good Shepherd, 425-426, mosaic, mausoleum of Galla Placidia

 

 

Early Christian Art 

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[image]
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Church of Santa Sabina, Rome, c422-432

 

early christian art 

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[image]
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Church of Santa Sabina, Rome, c422-432

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basilica plan   
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a large roofed hall \

 

Such buildings usually contained interior colonnades that divided the space, giving aisles or arcaded spaces at one or both sides, with an apse at one end (or less often at each end), where the magistrates sat, The central aisle tended to be wide and was higher than the flanking aisles, so that light could penetrate through the clerestory windows.

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nave
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Architecturally the central, open space of a church, west

 

reserved for worshippers 

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apse
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semi-circular or polygonal section of the sanctuary at the liturgical east end beyond the altar. Geometrically speaking, an apse is either a half-cone or half-dome.
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altar
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in apse, east side of church
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transept
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The transept is the area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform
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Constantinople
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was Byzantium, until constantine made it the capitol
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Emperor Justinian
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527-65

wants the power of the church and took it. Makes huge capitol building "higha Sophia". 

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Iconoclastic Controversy
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dispute over the use of religious images (icons) in the Byzantine Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries

 

726-843

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[image]
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Interior, San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, c520

 

Byzantine art and architecture 

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[image]
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Emperor Justinian and His Attendants, c547, mosaic

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[image]
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Theodora and Her Attendants, c547, mosaic

 

byzantine art 

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[image]
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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey      as ordered by Justinian

 

took 5 years to build

 

built by

, Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, 532-37

 

 

largest building in his capitol 

 

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pendentive
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useage of angles on a dome to give hexagonal shape- thus being able to make larger domes
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[image]
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Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels, icon, Monastery of St Catherine, second half of

6thc, encaustic on wood

 

 

byzantine art 

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