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Byzantium

Byzantium. Byzantium is the name given to both the state and the culture of the Eastern Roman Empire in the middle ages . The height of the first period of Byzantine history (324-632) was the reign of Emperor Justinian (527-565) and his wife Empress Theodora (d. 548). 717.

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Byzantium

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  1. Byzantium Byzantium is the name given to both the state and the culture of the Eastern Roman Empire in the middle ages. The height of the first period of Byzantine history (324-632) was the reign of Emperor Justinian (527-565) and his wife Empress Theodora (d. 548)

  2. 717 Persists but weakened after rise of Islam, early 7th c. Byzantine Empire 867

  3. Icons & Controversy • In 730 the Byzantine emperor Leo III officially prohibits use of icons.. • Contentious and complex back and forth, across the centuries. • Part of the split into Eastern and Roman Catholic church

  4. Fayum Portraits(~NT era to 4th c.)

  5. Constantine • Hagia Sophia

  6. Christ the Pantokrator • Lit. = ‘almighty’; all powerful’ (YHWH) • Common in central dome • How would you describe features? Mood?

  7. Church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece, c.1080-1100

  8. Madonna and Child • Berlinghiero (Italian, Lucca, active by 1228, died by 1236) • Tempera on wood, gold ground • MET • ‘Theotokos’

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