Barron's: Chapter 8 - Byzantine Art Flashcards

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Time Period

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  • Early Byzantine: 500-726
  • Iconoclastic Controversy: 726-843
  • Middle and Late Byzantine: 843-1453, and beyond
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Essential Knowledge

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  • there is no uniform medieval style. some periods revive ancient classicism; others use geometric and natural designs
  • medieval artists are influenced by contemporaries in other parts of Europe, as well as ancient traditions
  • learning was centered on specific fields that were transmitted throughout Europe through trade, pilgrimage, and mostly religious
  • medieval architecture is mostly religious
  • medieval painting and sculpture avoids naturalistic depictions
  • at times medieval religions will reject images
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Hagia Sophia

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  • Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
  • 532-537
  • brick, ceramic, stone, mosaic
  • Istanbul
  • Byzantine period
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Buildings that Have Changed Use
  • Parthenon
  • Pantheon
  • Great Mosque at Cordoba
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San Vitale

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  • 526-547
  • brick, marble, stone
  • Ravenna, Italy
  • Byzantine period
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Buildings with Circular Plans
  • Pantheon
  • Dome of the Rock
  • Mosque of Selim II
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Justinian and Attendants

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  • c. 547
  • mosaic from San Vitale
  • Ravenna
  • Byzantine period
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Mosaics
  • Alexander Mosaic
  • Dome of the Rock interior
  • Taj Mahal interior
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Theodora and Attendants

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  • c. 547
  • mosaic from San Vitale
  • Ravenna
  • Byzantine period
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Vienna Genesis

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  • early sixth century
  • illuminated manuscript
  • pigment on vellum
  • Austrian National Library, Vienna
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons:
  • Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace
  • Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer
  • Churning of the Ocean of Milk
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Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George

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  • sixth-early seventh centuries
  • encaustic on wood
  • Monastery of Saint Catherine
  • Mount Sinai, Egypt
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: A Work of Art Done by Many Artists
  • Terra-cotta Warriors
  • Parthenon
  • Koons, Pink Panther
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axial plan

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  • a church with a long nave whose focus is the apse, so-called because it is designed along an axis
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cathedral

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  • the principal church of a diocese, where s bishop sits
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central plan

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  • a church having a circular plan with the altar in the middle
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chalice

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  • a cup containing wine, used during a Christian service
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codex

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  • a manuscript book
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continuous narrative

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  • a work of art that contains several scenes of the same story painted or sculpted in a single frame
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cornice

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  • a projecting ledge over a wall
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eucharist

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  • the bread sanctified by the priest at the Christian ceremony commemorating the Last Supper
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genesis

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  • first book of the Bible that details Creation, the Flood, Rebecca at the Well, and Jacob Wrestling the Angle, among other episodes
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icon

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  • a devotional panel depicting a sacred image
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iconostasis

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  • a screen decorated with icons, which separates the apse form the transept of a church
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martyrium

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  • a shrine built over a place of martyrdom or a grave of a martyred Christian saint
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mosaic

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  • a decoration using pieces of stone, marble or colored glass, called tesserae, that are cemented to a wall or a floor
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paten

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  • a plate, dish, or bowl used to hold the Eucharist at a Christian ceremony
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pendentive

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  • a construction shaped like a triangle that transitions the space between flat walls and the base of a round dome
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squinch

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  • the polygonal base of a dome that makes a transition from the round dome to a flat wall
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Theotokos

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  • the Virgin Mary in her role as the Mother of God