Art 231 Midterm

Synagogue of Dura-Europas

244-45 CE, Late Antiquity

Dura-Europas Syria

Key detail: Serves as a reminder of deliverance for Jews (see image of Moses striking water from rock)

Christ as the Good Sheperd

Mid 3rd Century, Early Christian Period

Vault ceiling of the Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome

Passion Sarcophagus

Mid 4th Century, Early Christian period

Rome

Key material: marble

Mosaic of the Baptism of Christ

450 AD

Ravenna, Orthodox Bapistry

Key Detail: Older Jesus, with no cruciform behind his head in halo

Icon of the Virgin and Child

5th-6th Century

Palestine or Constantinople

Key Detail: Tempera, made with gold on the panel; icons commonly used in processions

Mosque of Damascus, South Portal

709-715; Umayyad period

Damascus, Syria

Key Detail: Mosaic denoting the luscious gardens seen in Islamic paradise

Qur’an detached folio

9th Century

Key Detail: words transposed in gold denoting extreme value

Christ in Majesty, Godescalc Gospels

781-783

Frankish Culture

Key Detail: Used in a manuscript'

Bioconal Bead

10th-11th Centuries

Egypt of Syria

Key Detail: Fatimid Culture, made from gold

Coronation Rome of the Holy Roman Emperors

1133-1134; Norman Islamic period

Rome

Key Detail: made form silk, pearls, gold, gemstones

Chalice of Patriachs

10th-11th Century; Byzantine empire

San Marco, Venice

Key Detail: Cup made from a material that glows red when wine is poured in it, denoting transubstantiation

Basilica San Marco

1063-1073, Consecrated in 1094

Venice

Synagogue of Toledo

1200

Toledo, Spain

Gospel Book of Otto III, Emperor Enthroned

997-1000

Munich

Key Detail: Manuscript

Lindesfarne Gospels, Carpet Page with Cross and Portrait of St Matthew

698

Scotland; Germanic period

Parchment manuscript

Typology

A type of callback or foreshadowing.

Seen in work by using types from OT and their associated events in NT

Sedes Sapientiae

Wisdom Seat

Sen in work where Mary (theotokos) is sitting

Martyrium

A church built upon the place of death for a martyr

St Peter’s Baslica was built of death and burial place of St Peter

Apotropaic

Laudes Regiae

Ancient Roman Chant

Emperor would sit at center with monks chanting below him up to heaven. This denotes the emperor as the ‘Holy Roman Emperor’ and his acting as a representative for his people.

Hekhal

Shrine or oranmental chamber to the Torah

Prototype

Serves as inspiration for an image

In this image Archangel Michael is serving as the prototype for his depiction. This allows people to adore the prototype through the image.

Christua Patiens

Byzantine representation of Christ’s passion

Mihrab

Semi circular niche cut into a Mosque’s wall. This wall faces mecca