After Rome: Byzantium and Islam Flashcards
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Apse mosaic of Justinian and Archbishop Maximianus, San Vitale, Ravenna, ca. 547
- Justinian, Early Byzantine Art
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Plan and cutaway view of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey, 532-537
- Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, Early Byzantine Art
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The Barberini Ivory, showing “Justinian as world conquerer,’ ca. 550
- Justinian, Early Byzantine Art
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Icon showing the Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George, ca. 600, Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
- Early Byzantine Art
- encaustic on wood
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The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, 687-692.
- Patron: the caliph Abd al-Malik
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The frieze of the Umayyad palace at Mshatta, Jordan, ca. 740-750
- Early Islamic Art
- limestone
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Malwiya Minaret, part of the Great Mosque at Samarra, Iraq, 848-852
- Abbasid caliph al Mutawakkil, Early Islamic Art
- sandstone
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The Great Mosque at Cordoba, Spain, built and restored 784-976
- Abd al-Rahman I, caliph al-Hakam II, Early Islamic Art
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Koran page with the beginning of surah 18 (The Cave), ca. 900.
- Early Islamic Art
- ink and gold on vellum
