Exam 3 Early Christian Art

Question 1

Answer 1

The Tetrarchs

300 CE

Porphyry

Question 2

Answer 2

Surviving fragments from a colossal statue (an acrolith) of Constantine the Great

Rome

marble

313 CE

Question 3

Answer 3

The Arch of Constantine

Rome

marble

312-315 CE

Question 4

Answer 4

Basilica at Trier

Germany

4th century CE

Question 5

Answer 5

The Good Shepherd

Asia Minor, probably Central Turkey

Early Christian

250-300

Question 6

Answer 6

Moses and the Exodus

Synagogue, Dura Europas, (Syria)

244

Question 7

Answer 7

Old St. Peter’s Basilica

Rome

Built by Emperor Constantine

begun 333 CE

Question 8

Answer 8

Basilica of San Apollinare in Classe

outside Ravenna

549 CE

Question 9

Answer 9

Apse of Sant’Apollinare in Classe

The Transfiguration and St. Apollinaris

6th century

mosaic

Question 10

Answer 10

The Emperor Victorious, (called the Barberini Diptych)

Constantinople

ivory

6th century CE

Question 11

Answer 11

Hagia Sophia (Church of Holy Wisdom)

Anthemuis of Tralles & Isidorus of Miletus

Constantinople

532-537 CE

Question 12

Answer 12

Ravenna, Church of San Vitale

Empress Theodora and her Attendants

547 CE

Mosaic

Question 13

Answer 13

Ravenna, Church of San Vitale

Emperor Justinian, with attendants and archbishop Maximianus

547 CE

Mosaic

Question 14

Answer 14

Bronze Doors made by Bishop Bernward for the Abbey Church of Saint Michael

Hildesheim, Germany

1015

Question 15

Answer 15

Bayeux Embroidery

wool on linen

made in southern England

1073-83 CE

Question 16

Answer 16

The Abbey Church of St. Foy at Conques (France)

12th century

Question 17

Answer 17

Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy, West Façade

Tympanum with Last Judgment

1100s

Question 18

Answer 18

Reliquary Statue of Saint Foy

gold, silver gilt, enamels, crystals, gems, glass, over wood

9th-10th century

Question 19

Answer 19

Virgin and Child in Majesty

French, Auvergne

Walnut

paint, gesso, and linen

1150–1200

Answer 20

Virgin and Child

Paris

ivory

1260

Question 21

Answer 21

The West Façade Royal Portal

Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Chartes

1145-50

Question 22

Answer 22

Notre-Dame de la Belle Verriere

1180 CE

Question 23

Answer 23

Good Samaritan Window

1205 CE

Question 24

Romanesque Dates

Answer 24

Saint Foy Abbey 12th Century

Virgin and Child in Majesty 1150-1200 CE

West Facade 1100 CE

Reliquary 9th-10th Century

Question 25

Gothic Dates

Answer 25

Good Samaritan Window 1205CE Virgin and Child 1260 CE Notre-Dame de la Belle Verriere 1180 CE Royal Portal 1145-50 CE

Question 26

Constantine Dates

Answer 26

Moses and the Exodus 244 CE Tetrarch 300 CE The Good Shepard 250-300 CE Constantine the Great 313 CE The Arch of Constantine 312-315 CE Old St. Peter’s Basilica 333 CE Basilica at Trier 4th Century

Question 27

Byzantine and Justinian Dates

Answer 27

Emperor Victorious 6th Century Apse of Saint Apollinare 6th Century Basilica of San Apollinare 549 CE Empress Theodora, Mosaic 547 CE Emperor Justinian, Mosaic 547 CE Hagia Sophia 532-537 CE

Question 28

Other Dates

Answer 28

Rebecca at the Wall 6th Century Crucifixion Cover 870-880 CE Page of Saint Matthew 9th Century Bronze Doors 1015 Bayeux Embroidery 1073-83 CE The Washington Haggadah 1478 CE