Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Images to Identify:
Early Jewish Art and Architecture
• Menorahs and Ark of the Covenant, wall painting in a Jewish catacomb, Villa
Torlonia, Rome, Italy
Early Christian Art and Architecture
• Banquet Scene, wall painting in the Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome, Italy
• Basilica-Plan and Central-Plan Churches
• Catacomb of the Jordani, Rome, Italy
• Christ as the Good Shepherd, mosaic in the lunette over the west entrance
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, Italy
• Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, nave, Rome, Italy
• The Good Shepherd (statuette)
• Good Shepherd, Orants and Story of Jonah, painted ceiling of the Catacomb of
Saints Peter (Pietro) and Marcellinus (Marcellino), Rome, Italy
• Interior of Oratory of Galla Placidia with lunette of the Martyrdom of Saint
Lawrence, Ravenna, Italy
• Interior of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy
• Jonah Swallowed and Jonah Cast Up, two statuettes
• Reconstruction drawing of Old Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy
• Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome, Italy
• Sarcophagus with Angels and Chi Rho
Early Byzantine Art and Architecture
• Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, Church of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul,
Turkey
• Church of Hagia Sophia, interior
• Emperor Justinian and His Attendants, mosaic on the north wall of the apse,
Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
• Empress Theodora and Her Attendants, mosaic on the south wall of the apse,
Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
• Interior of Church of San Vitale with mosaic showing Christ enthroned,
Ravenna, Italy
• The Transfiguration of Christ with Saint Apollinaris, First Bishop of Ravenna,
mosaic in the apse, Church of Sant' Apollinare in Classe (Classis), the former
part of Ravenna (Classis), Italy
Vocabulary:
aisle
apse
Ark of the Covenant
Catacomb
chalice
clerestory
cubiculum (cubicula, pl.)
fresco
Greek cross
icon
iconoclasm
imperial imagery
Latin cross
loculi
lunette
mausoleum
menorah
mosaic
narthex
nave
New Testament
Old Testament
Orant
paten
pendentive
roundel
syncretism
Ten Commandments
tesserae
Torah
Transept
Transfiguration
triumphal arch
Who was who:
Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
Bishop Maximianus
Constantine
Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora
Galla Placidia
Jonah
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Peter
Saint Apollinaris
Be able to label a basilica-plan church. Know the difference between a basilicaplan church and a central-plan church.
Be able to name the four evangelists and their traditional symbols.
Be able to identify the traditional Christian symbols of the dove, fish, lamb
(sheep), alpha, omega and their meanings.