1. USAD 22: Art History and Appreciation (Week 11)
Prepared By:
Miss Ida Shaheera Azhar
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3. Byzantine Empire Capital city: Constantinople (Istanbul)
Location: Ravenna, Italy (was briefly the capital of the Western Roman Empire)
Constantinople: City of Constantine
Constantine was the first Christian emperor

4. Constantinople: The Byzantine Empire lasted for over a thousand years
Capital of the World: Trading position in the center of the medieval world
Constantinople (Turkey) is a transcontinental city in Eurasia
Napolean Bonaparte: If the Earth were a single state, Constantinople would be its capital

6. Basilica of San Vitale:
The most important sixth-century church is San Vitale in Ravenna
Location: Ravenna, Italy (was briefly the capital of the Western Roman Empire)
The church is most famous for its wealth of Byzantine mosaics

7. Basilica of San Vitale:
The art of Early Christian period were affected by an ongoing controversy between those who sought to follow the biblical prohibition against the making of images and those who wanted pictures to help tell the stories
Byzantine style developed as a way of inspiring the illiterate while keeping the biblical commandment that forbids the making of graven images

9. Justinian and his Retinue:
Mosaic in apse of San Vitale, Ravenna
The elongated, abstracted figures provide symbolic rather than naturalistic depictions of the Christian and Royal figures
Figures are depicted with heavy outline and stylized shading
Justinian are shown with halo and royally attired and bejeweled

10. Hagia Sophia: 6th Century Location: Istanbul, Turkey
As the central sanctuary of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church

12. Hagia Sophia:
After Islamic conquest of 1453, minarets (towers) were added and it was used as a mosque
It is now a museum
Hagia Sophia’s distinctive dome appears to float on a halo light
Contrast to the Pantheon’s dome on a cylinder, the dome of Hagia Sophia rests on a square base

13. Hagia Sophia: “Holy Wisdom” also known as AyaSofya
Mathematics was at the time regarded as the highest of the sciences
Design by Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
One of the magnificent domes in the world