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Joslyn Art Museum SURVEY OF WESTERN ART HISTORY I Early Christian and Byzantine Art

mystery cultsyncretismorant / orant figurecatacombstypology / typological prefigurationschismmartyriumaltarcrucifixapsetransubstantiationtriumphal archtriumphal crossgabled rooftranseptcruciformtesseraemosaic

ambulatoryniche / blind nichelunettegallerychoirminaretpendentivesquinchscreen wallscodexfoliosiconiconiciconoclasticonophilesign / symbolGreek crossrelicdeesis

Arch of Constantine, Rome

313 AD

Marble

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Dura Europos synagogue in Syria

c. 245

Tempera on plaster

Moses Giving Water to the Tweleve Tribes of Israel

Dura Europossynagogue

c. 245

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Christ as the Good Shepherd

Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome

Early Christian, 2nd-3rd century

Fresco

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Early Christian sarcophagus

Santa maria Antiqua, Rome

4th century

marble

Reconstruction diagram and plan of Old Saint Peter’s basilica, Rome

333-390

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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

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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

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Interior of the mausoleum of GallaPlacidia 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

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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

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Choir ceiling, San Vitale, Ravenna

c. 547

Mosaic

Section of San Vitale, Ravenna

Apse mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna

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Detail of a capital, San Vitale, Ravenna,

Byzantine, c. 540

Marble

Court of Justinian

Apse mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna

Byzantine, c. 547

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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

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Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (now Istanbul)

Completed 537

Section of Hagia Sophia

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Plan of Hagia Sophia

Interior of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople

Conversion to a mosque after 1453 Turkish invasion

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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

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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

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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

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Harrowing of Hell, Katholikon, HosiosLoukas, 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

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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

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Andrei Rublev

Old Testament Trinity

Early 15th century

Panel painting