HOA 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Full City
4 Nov 2018
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** the pantheon, roman temple, 7th century becomes a church, the dome building. Topographical- hagia sophia, it is mounted and has a topographical symbolism. You can see why christ was crucified, resurrected, and buried. Anything that jesus has touched leaves a magical touch to it that believers pray to or offer things too. The dome of the rock has an interior decoration that is very important. The arabic language script is fairly hard to read. But it is the very first evidence of the quran. The script would be harder to read because there are no vowels. The very word of god are very sacred monuments. Christianity and islam, the difference between of how god is imagined in art. God is most reveal through jesus in christianity in art, the focal point. Light is changing your perspective in the world. God took human form and became man and god. The language of the quran is the word of god.
