Byzantine Flashcards
Dura Europos
245-46 CE, Jewish, Sanctuary paintings
Tempera on Plaster
Early Christian
3rd - 5th Century
St. Peter (plan)
interior plan, 324-400 CE, Rome
(Basilica Plan)
Santa Costanza (interior)
350 CE, Rome
Santa Costanza (plan)
350 CE, Rome, (Central Plan)
Galla Placidia (ext)
425 CE, Ravenna
Galla Placidia (int)
425 CE, Ravenna
Christ as the Good Shepherd
425 CE, Galla Placidia, Ravenna
Santa Maria Maggiore
440 CE, Rome
The Parting of Lot and Abraham
440 CE, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Sarcophagus
270 CE, Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome, Marble
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
360 CE, Marble
Byzantine
5th -15th Century (CE)
San Vitale (ext)
540 CE, Ravenna
San Vitale (int)
540 CE, Ravenna
San Vitale (plan)
540 CE, Ravenna, Central Plan
Court of Justinian
540 CE, San Vitale, Ravenna
Court of Theodora
540 CE, San Vitale, Ravenna
Hagia Sophia (ext)
537 CE, Constantinople
Hagia Sophia (int)
537 CE, Constantinople
Hagia Sophia (plan)
537 CE, Constantinople, Central and Basilica Plan
Christ as the Pantocrator
Late 11th Century; Church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece
The Crucifixion
Late 11th Century; Church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece
St. Mark (ext)
1063 CE, Venice
St. Mark (int)
1063 CE, Venice
Justinian the Conqueror
525-550 CE, ivory
Monestary of St. Catherine
Mount Sinai, Egypt
Virgin and Child Enthroned Between Saints and Angels
6th Century; St. Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt; encaustic on panel
Christ
6th Century; St Catherine Monastary, Mount Sinai, Egypt; encaustice on panel
Edict of Milan
enacted by Constantine, Edict saying it is okay to treat Christians the same as everyone else
Martyrium
A church, chapel, or shrine build over the grace of a Christian martyr or at the site of an important miracle.
House Church
A place for private worship withing a house; the first Christian churches were located in privae homes that were modified for religious ceremonies.
Justinian & Theodora
Catacombs
The underground burial places of early Christians, consisting of passages with niches for tombs and small chapels for commemorative services.
Tessarae
A small piece of colored stone, marble, glass, or gold backed glass use in a mosaic.
Cruciform
Having the shape of a cross.
Latin Cross
longer middle with short left right
Greek Cross
Each length is equal (like the swatch symbol)
Narthex
The transverse entrance hall of a church, sometimes enclosed but often open on one side to a preceding atrium.
Transept
A Cross arm in a basilican church placed at right angles to the nave and usually separating it from the choir or apse.
Clerestory
A row of windows in the upper part of a wall that rises above an adjoining roof. It’s purpose is to provide direct lighting, as in a basilica or church.
Nave
The central aisle of a roman basilica, as distinguished from the side aisles. The same section of a Christian basilican church extending from the entrance to the apse or transept.
Apse
A semicircular or polygonal niche termination one or both ends of the nave in a Roman basilica. In a Christian church, it is usually placed at the east end of the nave beyond the transept or choir. It is also somtimes at the end of the transept arms.
Orant
A standing figure with arms upraised in a gesture of prayer.
Ambulatory
A covered walkway. Ina basilican church, the semicurcular passage around the apse. In a central plan church, the ring shaped aisle around the central space. In a cloister, the covered colonnaded or arcaded walk around the open courtyard.
Icon
A panel painting of one or more sacred personages, such as Christ, the Virgin, or a saint, particularly venerated in the Orthodox Christian church.
Iconoclast
Forbade the worship or production of religious images. Person who didn’t believe in the use of religious icons.
Iconophile
Believed in the use of images
Basilica Plan
A longitudinal church derived from the Roman basilica and having a nave, an apse, two or four side aisles or side chapels, and sometimes a narthex.
Central Plan
Parchment
A paperlike material made from bleached animal hides used estensively in the Middle Ages for manuscripts
Vellum
A superior type of parchment made from calfskin.
Codex
An ancient manuscript text in book form.
Manuscript Illumination
Text is supplimented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders, and miniture illustrations.
Minaret
A tower on or near a mosque, varying extensively in form throughout the Islamic world, from which the faihful are called to prayer five times a day.
Pendentives
One of the concave trianlges that achieves the transistion from a square or polygonal opening of the round base of a dome or the supporting drum.
Deesis
The representations of Christ enthrones between the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist, frequent in Byzantine mosaics and depictions of the Last Judgment. It refers to the roles of the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist as intercessors for humankind.
Pantocrator
a title of Christ represented as the ruler of the universe, especially in Byzantine church decoration.
