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Church of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna), dedicated 504. Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes from Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (Ravennna), c. 504.
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Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes from Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (Ravennna), c. 504
appearance of a gold background to suggest an unworldly (sacred) realm/ formal symmetry and economy of means (to reinforce its symbolic content)/ less emphasis on shadowing and more emphasis on the miraculous event
Rebecca and Eliezer at the well, from the Vienna Genesis, early sixth century; tempera, gold, and silver on purple vellum
Constantinople in Early Christianity/ codex and rotulus/ folio/ vellum and parchment/ persistence of Classical motifs and stylistic modes
Christ before Pilate, folio 8 verso of the Rossano Gospels, early sixth century, tempera on purple vellumChrist depicted with a beard and a nimbus/ use of labeling for narrative clarity
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Priestess celebrating the rites of Bacchus, right leaf of the Diptych of the Nicomachi and the Symmachi, c. 400, ivorypersistence of the classical form with its emphasis on beauty/ ivory diptych/ discontent with the dominating Christian culture
St. Michael the Archangel, early sixth century, ivoryambiguous relationship between the figure and its setting