Test 3 Flashcards
Name: Constantine Deconstructed
Period: Early Christian
Significance: Constantine’s portraits revive the Augustan image of an eternally youthful ruler. fragment of an enthroned ruler
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Name: The Good Shepard, the story of Joah and orants
Period: Early Christian
Significance: Celiling in a Roman catacomb, similar to the painted caults of Ostian homes, subjects form the Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament
Name:Battle of Romans and barbarians (Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus)
Period: Early Christian
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Good Shepherd Sarcophagus,
from the Catacomb of Praetextatus
Period: Early Christian
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Name: Layout of St.Peters
Period: Early Christian
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Name: Interior of Santa Costanza
Period: Early Christian
Significance: Possibly the mausoleum of Constantine’s daughter, central plan, domed interior, inspiration for Byzantine churches
Name: Masoleum of Galla Placida
Period: Early Christian, Byzantine
Significance:
- Outside not fancy, inside has fancy Tessarae Mosaics
- Mosaics have Biblical subject matter
- Symbolic of Christian Spirit, Outside doesn’t matter but inside does
Name: Christ as the Good Shepard mosaic at Galla Placidia
Period: Early Christian
Significance: naturalistic classical tradition, informal, three dimensional bulk
Name: Rebecca & Elietzer at the Wall
Period: - Early Christian, Byzantine
Significance: - Example of Kudex
- On Vellum or Parchment
- Earliest Painted manuscript
- Narrative takes place within art
- Illustrations to be read like text
Name: Woman sacrificing at an altar
Period: Early Christian
Significance: pagan ritual, banned by Theodosius, classical artistic style
Name: Saint Michael the Archangel
Period: Byzantine
Significance: modeled after a classical winged victory, seems to float in front of the architecture rather than stand on it
Name: Hagia Sophia
Period: Byzantine
Significance:
- Inspired by Pantheon, Dome
- Light was seen as mystical and spiritual so they put a lot of windows
- Had both Pendentives and Squinch
Name: San Vitale
Period: Byzantine
Significance:
- Outside plain, Inside decorative
- Complication of space inside and outside
- Pattern oriented stuff
Name: Justinian and the Attendants
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Mosaic
- Not about visual reality, but the narrative
- Gold became symbol for Heaven
- Most important figure is placed in middle
- Very flat, no attempt at illusionistic art
Name:Theodora and attendants
Period: Romanesque
Significance: Justinian’s wife, new aesthetic,
Name: St. Mark’s
Period: Byzantine
Significance:
- Same windows as Hagia Sophia
- Mystic light to encourage worship, same with Mosaics
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Name:- Apollinaris Amid Sheep
Period: Byzantine
Significance:- Signs of Evangelists represented
- Iconographs
- Narrative
Name: Transfiguration of Jesus
Period: Byzantine
Significance: the artist took away traces of landscape for a depthless field of gold, the prophets and disciples cast no shadows even though bathed in divine light
Name: Hosios Loukas
Period: Byzantine
Significance:
- Plain outside
- Dome like interior
- Stuff inside tells Biblical narratives
Name: David composing the Psalms
Period: Byzantine
Significance: During the Macedonian Renaissance Byzantine artists revived the classical style, portrayal of David as a Greek hero
Name: Andrei Rubylev
Period: Byzantine
Significance:
- Very flat
- Highly Stylized
- Mandala’s around head
- Icon because of Gold backgrounds
Name: Dome of the Rock
Period: Islamic Art
Significance: mark the triumph of Islam on a site sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews, an octogon with a towering dome
Name: Sinan, Mosque fo Selim II
Period: Islamic Art
Significance: new type of mosque with a dome covered prayer hall, taller than the hagia sophia, engineering triumph
Name: Interior of Mosque of Selim
Period: Islamic Art
Significance: fusion of an octogon and a dome covered square wiht four half domes at the corners, The plan features geometric clarity and precise numerical ratios
Name: Malwiya Minaret
Period: Islamic Art
Significance: unique spiral snail shell, served to announce the presence of Islam in the Tigris Valley
Name: Taj Mahal
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Name: Pair of Merovingian looped fibulae
Period: Carolingian
Significance: migration period, pin for holding a cloak over shoulders, silver gilt worked in filigree, owned by chieftan
Name: Purse cover from the Sutton Hoo
Period: Carolingian
Significance:
- Zoomorphic
- Stylized overlaid designs
- Interlacing design almost becomes pattern like
Name: Animal Head Post
Period: Medieval, Migration Period
Significance:
- Lacertine
- Wrapping & Weaving of Design
Name: Viking Church
Period:Medieval, Migration Period
Significance:
- Beginning of Gargoyles
- Used to defend against enemies
- Looks small
- Lacertine, Interlaced, Animal quality inside
Name: Cross Inscribed Carpet Page
Period: Medieval, Migration Period
Significance:
- So heavily designed it almost pulsates
- Very intense patterning
- All books copied by Monks
Name: Chi-rho-iota (XPI) page,
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Name: High Cross of Muiredach
Period: Barbarian
Significance: going towards Christian subject matter, pilgrims knelt in front of cross, central idea-crucifixion, panels of saints, interlacing designs
Name: St. Matthew
Period: Carolingian
Significance:
- Turn to book form instead of scroll
- Byzantine influence