ARTH 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Apse, Apollinaris Of Ravenna, Galla Placidia
22 Dec 2016
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Handout fourteen: ravenna late antiquity and early byzantine. Ravenna, italy is south of venice on eastern coast ruled by rome until c. 476 when. Germanic ostrogoths took it over and made it a capital in 493. 539 ravenna is re-taken by the byzantine emperor justinian, ruled from. See the development of a domed cruciform church, which will become very popular. Increasingly frontal and abstracted imagery associated with byzantine art. Mosaic = patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces (tesserae) of stone or glass on a surface. Byzantine = referring to the eastern christian roman empire, ruled by. Lunettes = semicircular frames, often containing imagery. Central-plan= building"s parts are of equal or almost-equal dimensions around the center, often round or polygonal domed structures. Transfiguration= jesus scales a high mountain, and in the presence of disciples. Peter, james, and john the evangelist, is transformed into radiant light. God, speaking from a cloud, discloses that jesus is his son.
