1. Early Byzantium: The Art of the New Rome

3. Byzantion (Greek) or Byzantium (Latin) = Constantinople (“City of Constantine”) = “New Rome” = Istanbul

5. 11 May 330 Inauguration of Constantinople as the New Rome
29 May 1453 Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks

8. Ivory panel with an emperor (most likely Justinian I) on horseback (the so-called Barberini Ivory), mid-6th century

9. Equestrian statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Rome, ca. 176 CE

10. Church of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), Constantinople/Istanbul, 532–537 and later

12. Architects:
Anthemius of Tralles and
Isidorus of Miletus
Plan of Hagia Sophia,
532–537 and later

13. Old St. Peter’s, Rome
Santa Costanza, Rome

16. Dome on pendentives

21. Church of San Vitale (= St. Vitalis), Ravenna, 526–547

23. Mosaic decoration of
the choir, San Vitale

24. Emperor Justinian, Bishop Maximianus, and attendants

25. Empress Theodora and her entourage

26. PATEN
CHALICE

28. Christ, angels, St. Vitalis and Bishop Ecclesius