Unit 4: Late Antiquity, Byzantine, Early Medieval
Art and Architecture
Art to Know:
Late Antiquity
11.1 Interior of the Synagogue of Dura
Europa
11.3 Ceiling of a cubiculum (“Good
Shepherd”)
11.5 Sarcophagus of Junius Bassius
11.7 Old Saint Peters
11.8 Santa Sabina
11.9, 11.10, 11.11 Santa Costanza
11.13 Lot and Abraham
11.14 Galla Placidia
11.15 Christ as the Good Shepherd Mosaic
11.19 Rebecca and Eliezer (And Jacob
Wrestling)
Early Byzantine:
12.2 Saint Michael
12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.16 Hagia Sophia
12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9 San Vitale
12.10 Justinian mosaic
12.11 Theodora mosaic
12.12 Saint Apollinaris
12.13 Transfiguration of Jesus (monastery of
St. Catherine)
12.15 Virgin (Theotokos) and Child
Between Theodore and George
Middle Byzantine:
12.16 Virgin (Theotokos) and Child
12.17, 12.18, 12.19 Monastery churches,
Hosious Loukas, Greece
12.20 Crucifixion mosaic
12.22 St. Mark’s, Venice
12.24 Pantocrater, Monreale
12.26 Harbaville Triptych
12.28 David Composing the Psalms, Paris
Psalter
12.29 Vladimir Virgin
Late Byzantine:
12.33 Annunciation
12.34 Old Testament Trinity
To Research: Catacomb of Priscilla (Greek Chapel, orant fresco, Good Shepherd fresco)
Terms to Know:
Catacomb
Loculi
Orant figure
Synagogue
Spolia
Torah
Gospels
Edict of Milan
Syncretism
Apse
Nave
Ambulatory
Axial plan
Central plan
Clerestory
Narthex
Trancept
Triforium
Pantocrator
Theotokos
Triptych
Psalter
Chalice
Anastasis
Pendentives
Hieratic
Encaustic
Icon
Iconography
Iconoclasm
Codex
Squinch
Unit 4 (cont’d): Early Medieval Art and Architecture
Warrior Lords & Hiberno-Saxon:
16.1 Fibula
16.2 Purse Cover
16.6 Cross and Carpet Page, Lindisfarne Gospels (And St. Luke portrait and incipit
Pages)
16.8 Saint Matthew, Lindisfarne Gospels
16.7 Chi-Rho-Iota, Book of Kells
Carolingian:
16.11 Equestrian Statue of Charlemagne
16.12 St. Matthew, Coronation Gospels (Gospel Book of Charlemagne)
16.13 St. Matthew Ebbo Gospels
16.16 Crucifixion, front cover on Lindau Gospels
16.17, 16.18 Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, Aachen
16.19 Torhalle
16.20 Schematic Plan for the monastery of Saint Gall
Ottonian:
16.23, 16.24 Saint Michael’s, Hildesheim, Germany
16.25 Saint Michaels’ doors with relief panels
16.27 Crucifix commissioned by Archbishop Gero
16.29 Otto III, from the Gospel of Otto III
Terms to Know:
Cloisonné
Zoomorphic
Vellum
Fibula
Viking
Hibernia
Mozarabic
Scriptorium
Cloister
Crossing
Module
Monastery
Charlemagne
Medieval
Sutton Hoo
Beowulf
Archbishop Gero
Bishop Bernward
Aachen
Benedictine
Stringcourse
Laity
Reliquary