Exam 4: Early Christianity and Byzantium

What is the historical significance of the Vladimir Madonna?

Describe the features of each mosaic that make it a typical example of the Early Byzantine and Middle Byzantine styles.

Assess the contributions of Justinian during the Early Byzantine period.What is his artistic legacy?

One of these buildings is Early Christian and the other Byzantine.Identify them,describe the structural system used for each,and note the historical factors that might account for their similarities and differences.

Emperor Justinian appears in the apse mosaic at ____.

Compare and contrast Old Saint Peter's,Rome,and the Hagia Sophia,Constantinople.How is each building unique and innovative? How is each building significant and relevant to its period and place? What outside influences,if any,shaped each building? Be sure to include innovative construction elements in you essay.

One of the scenes depicted on the Junius Bassus Sarcophagus is the ____.

What are the parts of a Christian basilica and what are their functions?

Compare the treatment of space and form in this manuscript and discuss the factors that may account for that treatment.

Christ as the Good Shepherd appears in ____.

Where is a pendentive found?

Discuss the architectural innovations of the Byzantine period.Discuss specific features from at least two buildings.Be sure to specify the period each building.Use examples to support your essay.

Explain the function of icons.Then discuss iconoclasm and its effect on artistic production.Use specific examples to support your essay.

What Roman imperial attributes were used to identify Christ?

Which biblical story prefigured Christ's resurrection?

How does Santa Costanza mirror Imperial Roman architecture?

Mosaics of Christ as Pantokrator usually appeared in the Byzantine church ____.

How does this structure draw upon the Imperial Roman architectural tradition?

What is the significance of Old Saint Peter's?

You have just discovered an old basilica.Explain how you will determine whether the structure was constructed for the Roman government or the Early Christian Church.