TitleIcon - AnnunciationDate14th CSubjectPainting--Byzantine--14th C. A.D

TitleMt. Sinai: Monastery of St. Catherine: Apse Mosaic: Transfiguration: det.Date549-64LocationSinai, Mount (Egypt)

CreatorAnthemius of Tralles, Byzantine
Isidorus of Miletus, ByzantineTitleChurch of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), Constantinople: interior, central space and domeCultureByzantine: ConstantinopleTitleHagia Sophia: exterior, detail of dome, view from S., originally constructed 532-537LocationIstanbul, Turkey

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Work in progress

'streams" of inquiry while investigating Byzantine Art

Follow the metamorphosis of architectural engineering...from

POST and LINTEL
CORBELLED WALLS
RELIEVING TRIANGLES
CEMENT
ARCHES
DOMES
COFFERED CEILINGS
BASILICAS
CENTRAL PLANNED STRUCTURES
PENDENTIVES
SQUINCES

Follow the development of painting...from

THE FOUR STYLES OF ROMAN MURALS
PORTRAITS OF THE ENCAUSTIC FAYUM REGION
ATMOSPHERIC/ARIEL PERSPECTIVE
STYLIZATION VS NATURALISM
ICONS/IKONA
VENERATION VS ADORATION
"To pray through not to"
HIERATIC
ILLUSION THAT RE-ENFORCES THE FLATNESS OF THE PICTURE PLANE

Some terms to travel artstor with-
Byzantine icon
iconastasis (sacred image wall)
Ravenna
Hagia Sophia
Mount Athos
Saint Catherines Monastary
Byzantine mosaics
Byzantine reliquaries
Andre Rublev
Theophanes