ARH 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vellum, Meyer Schapiro, Christogram
28 Sep 2016
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Examined byzantine mosaics in close relationship to their architectural context and to the religious outlook they served. Byzantine art thought to have achieved harmonic balance the second quarter of the 8th century. Byzantine art was made specifically for church decoration. Classical period (end of 9th - 11th century) form a consistent whole with certain features. Byzantine art abolishes all clear distinction between the world of reality and the world of appearance. Mosaics show a lack of invention and imagination. Personified virtues and vices, allegories, fears and hopes. Building up the schema as a whole. Representation of christ in his various aspects: the virgin, angels, prophets, apostles, and saints. Prototype producing its image of necessity, as a shadow is cast by a material object. Archetype the image, although differing from the prototype, is identical and worship is passed on through the image to the prototype. Image must depict the characteristic features of a holy person or a sacred event.
