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Byzantine Churches

Characteristic:

o Stones and columns from the

ancient city were used in the building,

which was originally open to the elements

like the ancient temples nearby.

o Around the end of the 5th century,

the church became a "closed basilica"

with the addition of outer walls and a

vault.

o

Became the Carpaccios Bishop,but the old basilica was not entirely

abandoned - it continued to be visited

occasionally by the faithful.

Temple of Ceres/Athena

Church of the Holy Apostles

Characteristic:

o Originally built by Constantine the Great

and rebuilt by Emperor Justinian

o The Church of the Holy Apostles was

ruthlessly plundered in the Crusades and

later toppled by a severe earthquake

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Byzantine Mosaics

Characteristic:

o Christ Pantocrator surrounded by apostles and saints in the center of

the dome of the esonarthex.

Characteristic:

o this mosaic shows the registration o

Mary and Joseph in front of the ta

collector in Bethlehem maybe thi

curious subject was close to the hear

of Treasurer Metokhites.... (I ha

erroneously believed that Empero

Andronicus II Paleologos was show

dedicating the church to the Virgin....)

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Byzantine Pictures

Characteristic:

o Constantine, right widely separated in organization authority of the finish Roman

sovereignty (the initial masculine for a prolonged whilst to be in which position), is

formulation an additional commencement as poignant as his embracing a cause

of Christianity. Immediately after the better of Licentious he sets about rebuilding

Byzantium as a Christian collateral city a single in which non-believer sacrifice,

the executive sermon of majestic Rome until this time, is privately forbidden.Virgin....)

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Characteristic:

o In 323 Emperor Constantine moved the capitol of the Roman Empire to

Byzantium. It was then renamed Constantinople. The Eastern part of the

empire developed differently then the Western. The Western Empire fell in

400's with an invasion from the northern Germanic Tribes. The Byzantium

Empire (Eastern section) stayed in tact over a thousand years longer, till the

fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Turks. Constantinople was renamed by

the Turks Istanbul, which is the the name it bears to this day. The art and

architecture reflects differences between the Roman Catholic religion which

develops in the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox religion

which thrived in the East, in the Byzantium Empire.