Late Antiquity & Byzantium Writing Assignment
You are to pick one of the following prompts – Due November 25, 2013
If you are absent for any reason it is your responsibility to get it to me either by email or in
my mailbox by class time. No exceptions.
Each essay is worth 100 Points
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Minimum 5 paragraphs (can be more)
Introduction and conclusion should summarize the paper and should be more than one
sentence.
Need to use specific examples of art and explain how they correlate to the question
prompt.
o I have suggested certain pieces to consider but can use other pieces from the
chapters and supplemental readings
You should use supplemental readings
Cite sources
Refrain from using the first person – academic voice only
Times Roman - 12 font
Double spaced (except for your name, class, date, and assignment name should be single
spaced in the upper left hand corner)
Pages number in the lower center
Proper grammar will be a consideration in overall grade
(See attached grading rubric)
Mrs. Noren – AP Art History
Late Antiquity & Byzantium Writing Assignment
Late Antiquity
Question:
1. Explain the roles played by the
Classical style of Greece and Rome
in the development of Early
Christian art. Use examples to
support your essay. Make sure to
consider the formal and iconographic
characteristics of Late Antiquity
Jewish and Christian art. Identify
historical events and characters that
exerted influence on the
development of Late Antiquity art
and architecture.
Question:
1. Discuss the roles played by the Classical
style of Greece and Rome and the
formalistic style of the East in the
development of Byzantine art. Explain
the formal and iconographic
characteristics of Early, Middle, and
Late Byzantine art. Identify and
discuss the persistence of classical
traditions in art produced in the
Early, Middle, and Late Byzantine
periods.
Pay particular attention to the following
art pieces
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Pay particular attention to the following
art pieces
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Community House – Dura-Europos,
Syria
Samuel Anoints David (synagogue
mural painting) – Dura-Europas,
Syria
Sarcophagus of Junius Bannus –
Rome, Italy
Old St. Peter’s – Rome, Italy
Santa Sabina & Santa Contanza
Churches – Rome, Italy
Mosaics of Santa Maria Maggiore
Church – Rome, Italy
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia –
Ravenna, Italy
Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
(mosaic), Sant’Apollinare Nuovo –
Ravenna, Italy
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Byzantium
Mrs. Noren – AP Art History
Hagia Sophia (Constantinople) –
Istanbul, Turkey
San Vitale (church structure) –
Ravenna, Italy
Justinian, Bishop Maximianus et al
(mosaic – San Vitale) - Ravenna,
Italy
Theodora and Attendants (mosaicSan Vitale) – Ravenna, Italy
Transfiguration of Christ (apse
mosaic – Church of the Virgin) –
Mount Sinai, Egypt
The Virgin and Child Enthroned
Between Sts. Theodore & George –
Mount Sinai, Egypt
Katholikon and Theotokos (church
structure and interior) - Hosios
Loukas, Greece
David Composing the Psalms
(illumination from the Paris Psalter)
– Paris, France
Anastasis (apse fresco)-Church of
Christ in Chora – Istanbul, Turkey
Andrei Rublyev Three Angels–
Moscow, Russia