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Byzantium Chapter 12

Byzantium Chapter 12. Ms. Carpino APAH 2016. Byzantine Info. Byzantium acted as a buffer for Islamic influence moving west Justinian designated Christianity as only lawful religion. Justinian responsible for building 30+ churches in Constantinople alone.

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Byzantium Chapter 12

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  1. ByzantiumChapter 12 Ms. Carpino APAH 2016

  2. Byzantine Info • Byzantium acted as a buffer for Islamic influence moving west • Justinian designated Christianity as only lawful religion. • Justinian responsible for building 30+ churches in Constantinople alone. • Emperors in east were both pope and caesar (church and state were unified) • Ravenna was most prosperous during rule of Justinian (now a eastern roman foothold)

  3. Byzantine Art Characteristics • Big Change from realism to classical • Abstract and symbolic qualities • Dissolution of Roman illusionism • Still reveals sources in late antiquity but has a unique character • Mosaics were primary interior wall decoration of churches

  4. Christ as Pantokrator, dome mosaic, Greece

  5. Anthemius of Tralles & Isidorus of Miletus, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople532-537

  6. San Vitale, Ravenna, 526-547

  7. Choir/apse of San Vitale

  8. Theodora and attendants, south wall, apse, San Vitale

  9. Justinian, San Vitale

  10. Saint Apollinaris amid sheep, Ravenna

  11. Transfiguration of Jesus

  12. Justinian as world conqueror

  13. Saint Michael the Archangel

  14. Ascencion of Christ, Rabbula Gospels, 586

  15. Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George. Early Byzantine Europe. 6th or early 7th century. C.E. Encaustic on wood

  16. Virgin and child enthroned, apse, Hagia Sophia

  17. Katholikon, Greece

  18. Interior, Katholikon

  19. Christ enthroned with Saints, 950, ivory

  20. Andrei Rublyev

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