Thursday, November 12, 2015

Byzantium

9-5 Aerial view of Hagia Sophia ( The church of the Holy Wisdom)
Constantinople (Istanbul)
ANTHEMIUS OF TRALLES and ISIDORUS OF MILETUS
532-537
The most magnificent of the more 30 churches in Constantinople
Become a Mosque on the Ottoman 


9-21 Katholikon (looking northeast), monastery of Hosios Loukas (Saint Luke)
Distomo, Greece
1st quarter of the 11th century


9-19 Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
 Icon
6th or early 7th century
from Saint Catherine's monastery at Mount Sinai
Medium used is encaustic on wood

9-27 B Archangel Michael Icon 
Venice
ca. 1100

9-15 Saint Apollinaris amid sheep. apse mosaic, Sant'Apollinaire in class
Ravenna, Italy
533-549

9-35 Annunciation
Reverse of two-sided icon
From the Church of the Virgin Peribleptos, Ohrid Macedonia
Early 14th century
Tempera and linen on wood

9-14 Theodore and attendants
Mosaic on the south wall of the apse
San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
ca.547

9-17 B Christ before Pilate
Rossano Gospels
early 6th century


9-2 Archangel Michael
Right of leaf of a diptych
early sixth century
Made of Ivory

9-34 Christ as savior of souls
Icon 
From Saint Clement at Ohrid in Macedonia
early 14th century
Tempera, linen, and silver on wood

9-13 Throne of Maximianus
ca. 546-556


 
9-24 Christ as Pantokrator
Dome mosaic in the Church of the Dormition
Daphni, Greece
ca. 1090-1100


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