David Battling Goliath

Constantinople, 629-30 CE

Silver, Diameter 19 7/8

*underdog vanquashing a foe

*broken into 3 registers

*introduction of the halo to symbolize "the good guy"

*emphasized more important part of the story in the middle

*silver was used by the wealthy

Menorahs and Ark of the Covenant Wall Painting in a Jewish Catacomb

Villa Torlonia, Rome

3rd Century CE

Dura Europos House-Synagogue

Dura-Europos, Syria

244-245 CE

*wall painting, The Crossing of the Red Sea

Church of Santa Costanza

Rome, c. 350

*verticle organization

*sarcophagus of Constantina found here

Harvesting of Grapes

Ambulatory of Santa Costanza

Rome, c. 350 CE

Mosaic

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus

Grottoes fo St. Peter, c. 359 CE

Rome

Marble, 4x8 (high relief)

Plan and Reconstruction

Drawing of Old St. Peter's Basilica

Rome, 4th Century

Oratory of Galla Placidia

Ravenna, Italy

c. 425-426

*oratory- small chapel

*cruciform- cross-shaped structure

The Good Shepherd

Lunette over the entrance

Oratory of Galla Placidia

Ravenna, Italy

c.425-426 CE

Church of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom)

Anthemius of Trailes and Isidorus of Miletus

Istanbul, 532-537 CE

*embodied empirial power

*built in 5 years

*hybrid of longitudinal and center plan

Plan and Isometric Drawing of the Church of Hagia Sophia

*note piers, arches and pendentives

Church of San Vitale

Ravenna, 547 CE

Christ Enthroned, Flanked by Angels, St. Vitalis and Bishop Ecclesius

Apse Mosaic, Church of San Vitale

Ravenna, 546-8 c

Mosaic

Emperor Justinian and his attendants

North wall of the Apse

Empress Theodora and her attendants

South wall of the Apse

Rebecca at the well

Detail from the Vienna Genesis

(narrative)

Christ Pantocrator at Crest of Central Dome

Daphni, Greece

Mosaic

Crucifixion

Church of Dormition

Daphni, Greece

Mosaic

Exterior and Interior of St. Mark

Venice, Begun 1063 CE

Funerary Chapel

Church of the Monastery of Christ in Chora

Constantinople c. 1310-1321 CE