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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