ch.12 Byzantine

Question 1

Justinian Mosaic (San Vitale)

Answer 1

• Byzantine emperors were considered
• strange perspective
• holding the bread of the eucharist
• floating and haloed
• censer - container with incense
• gold background
• Justinian wears purple
• no contrapposto, unhuman

Question 2

Theodora Mosaic

Answer 2

• holds the wine of the Eucharist
• stands on floor, haloed
• equality
• impost columns
• shows royal power, they never visited

Question 3

Hagia Sophia

Answer 3

• brick and ceramic with stone and mosaic veneer
• Constantinople
• built by Antenemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
• “Holy Wisdom”
• collapsed several times, reinforced
• pendentires - pillars hold up the done
• hybrid of a central plan and basilica
• only Justinian and holy men entered the nave
• circle of windows under dome
• became mosque after Arabics invaded
• iconoclaim - destroying of holy images

Question 4

Virgin (Theotokos) and Child Between Saints Theodore and George

Answer 4

• Early Byzantine Europe
• encaustic on wood
• found in St. Catherine monastery at Mt. Sinai
• icon - depictions of saints
• Mary sits on a throne
• surrounded by St. Theodore and George, warrior saints
• angels watch the hand of god appear from the sky in light

Question 5

San Vitale (Architecture)

Answer 5

• Early Byzantine Europe
• brick, marble and stone veneer
• Ravenna, Italy
• sponsored by Justinian
• tesserae mosaics
• octagonal church
• the nave ceiling is higher
• saint vitale is buried here