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Church of San Vitale, Ravenna

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Byzantium
Built over grave of St Vitalus (Christian martyr)
Use of gold leaf and mosaic (characteristics of Byzantine good for unknowns)
Similar shape and features to church of Santa Costanza

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Church of Hagia Sophia
(Church of Holy Wisdom)
Focus Question

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Anthemius and Isidoris (mathematician and physicist)
Istanbul 360 CE
Byzantium
Basilica plan + central plan combo
Largest dome since pantheon
First large scale use of pandentives (spherical triangles)
(Compare to pantheon)
No oculus has 40 windows instead
Made in five years (short amount of time)
Made of thin bricks (instead of chunkier bricks) embedded in mortar in the dome which was lighter
Dome is 108ft in diameter (skinnier than pantheon)
Taller than pantheon
Buttresses added in later with switch from Christianity to Islam

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Christ Enthroned

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Church of San Vitale, Ravenna

Byzantium

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Emperor Justinian

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547 CE
Church of San Vitale, Ravenna
Byzantium
Example of mosaic

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Empress Theodora

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Church of San Vitale, Ravenna
Byzantium
She was an actress (was considered being like a prostitue)
Her father trained bears in a circus
Justinian hold bread and Theodora holds wine chalice

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Ascension of Christ

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Robbula Gospels
Byzantium 
Shows Christ's ascension  
Is an illumination
Done on sheet of calf skin (vellum)
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Crucifixion

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Church of Dormition, Greece
Byzantium
Gold mosaic (characteristic of Byzantine period)
Mary present (always in blue)
Young Jon the evangelist also present
Depicted in Golgotha (thought Adam was buried here)

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Harbaville Triptych

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Byzantium 
Carved of ivory 
Harbaville - family who owned it
Triptych - three part work 
Has registers 
When Mary and Jon the baptists are depicted together it is a scene of intercession
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David the Psalmist

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Paris Psalter 
Byzantium 
King David wrote the book of psalms 
King David part of earthly family tree 
Done on vellum
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Anastasis

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Church of Christ, Istanbul

Byzantium

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Hinged Clasp

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Sutton who Burial Ship
Early Middle Ages
Consists of garnets and blue glass

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Lindesfarne Gospel

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Early Middle Ages
Example of carpet page
300 calf skins were needed
Compass and straight edge used to create them

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Matthew Writing Gospel

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Lindesfarne Gospel
Early Middl Ages
Stolen by Vikings

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Chi Ro lota

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Book of Kells, 9th Century CE 
Early Middle Ages
Example of a carpet page 
750 sheets of vellum 
Required slaughter 185 calfs 
12 3/4 * 9 1/2
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Crucifixion

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Lindau Gospel Cover
Early Middle Ages
Recuse method

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Palace Chapel of Germany

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Odo de Metz

Early Middle Ages

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Church of St. Cyriakusn, Germany

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Nave

Early Middle Ages

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Abyss Uta

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Uta Codex

Early Middle Ages

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Reliquary Statue of Ste. Fly

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Romanesque

Reliquary - container for relic

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Christ in Majesty

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Church of St Pierre, Moissac

Romanesque

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Christ in Magesty

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Santa Maria de Mur, Spain

Romanesque mandorla- like an Ora giving a divine feel about whatever it’s representing

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Virgin and Child

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Romanesque
Carved of wood then painted
Stylized drapery
Seated on throne of wisdom

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Hildegarde and Volmer

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Romanesque
Had visions
Wrote about them
Also wrote about science and medicine
Vision that five tongues of fire entered her brain and was able to understand religious text in new way
Only woman known to have performed an exorcism

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Cathedral Complex

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Pisa
Romanesque
Possibly not for I’d ñ

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Cathedral

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Pisa

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Wiligelmus (wiligelmo)

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Creation and fall
Modena Cathedral, Italy
Romanesque

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Durham Cathedral

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Roman

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St Denis, France

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Abbot Suger
Gothic
Abbot founded the gothic cathedral style

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Chartres Cathedral, France

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1134
Gothic
Has Christ in majesty 3d piece
Lancet window

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Annunciation and Visitation

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Reims Cathedral

Gothic

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Abraham and the Three Angels

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Psalter of St. Louis

Gothic

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Salisbury Cathedral, England

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Gothic

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