Description: Interior features Roman columns and stone mosaics
Time Period: 337-351 AD
Catacomb of Commodilla
Features: Depictions of New Testament scenes and ceiling portrait of Jesus via fresco
Location: Rome, Italy
Time Period: 370-385 AD
Dura Europos Synagogue
Description: Old Testament scenes depicted in fresco
Location: Dura Europos, Syria
Time Period: 244 AD
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
Description: Early Christian artwork in marble
Date: c. 359 AD/C.E.
Location: Rome
Basilica of Constantine
Location: Trier, Germany
Style: Early Christian
Construction Materials: Brick, cement, and wood
Time Period: 306-312 AD
Equestrian Portrait of Charlemagne
Description: Artwork capturing Charlemagne or Charles the Great
Location: Metz, France
Time Period: 800-900 AD
Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne
Description: Royal Church of Charlemagne
Location: Aachen, near Trier, Germany
Style: Holy Roman Empire
Time Period: c. 810 AD
The Eastern Empire
Byzantine Empire Overview
Time Period: 337-1453 AD
Geographic Map Features
Descriptions of significant locations surrounding the Byzantine Empire:
Kingdom of the Visigoths
Kingdom of the Franks
Italy: Venice, Ravenna, Rome
Balkans and Anatolia
Notable Cities: Constantinople (Byzantium/Istanbul), Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and others
Byzantine Empire Map at the Death of Justinian
Date: 565 AD
Artistic Works in the Byzantine Period
The Good Shepherd Tympanum
Location: Oratory Chapel of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, Italy
Medium: Brick with interior mosaics
Time Period: c. 425 CE
Church of Hagia Sophia
Architects: Anthemius and Isodorus
Location: Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
Time Period: 532-537 AD
Hagia Sophia Plan and Cutaway View
Includes detailed architectural designs of the Hagia Sophia
Architectural Features of the Dome
Pendentives and squinches
Illustration of dome structures on pendentives and squinches
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child Enthroned
Time Period: 867 AD
Location: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
Churches and Interiors
San Vitale Church
Location: Ravenna, Italy
Time Period: 526-547 AD
Views:
Aerial view
Interior views
Choir and apse mosaic of Christ
Gold and glass mosaic of Emperor Justinian with attendants
Throne of Maximianus (546-556 AD)
Empress Theodora and Her Attendants (547 AD)
Christ between Constantine IX Monomachus and Empress Zoe
Time Period: 1028-1035 AD
Saint Apollinaris in Class
Description: Apse scene depicting Saint Apollinaris amid sheep
Time Period: 533-549 AD
The Transfiguration of Christ
Location: Apse of Saint Catherine Monastery
Time Period: 548-565 AD
Vienna Genesis
Illustrations:
Jacob wrestling with an angel
Rebecca at the well
Time: late 6th Century AD, possibly from Syria or Palestine
Virgin and Child Enthroned
Location: Monastery of St. Catherine
Time Period: 600 AD
Monastery Churches and Iconography
Katholikon, Hosios Loukas
Location: Greece
Time Period: 1000-1100 AD
Dome featuring Christ the Pantocrator (1000-1100 AD)
Cathedral of Saint Mark
Location: Venice, Italy
Time Period: 1063 AD
Interior features towards apse
Old Testament Trinity by Andrei Rublyev
Artworks:
3 Angels Visiting Abraham
Annunciation in the Church of Saint Clement, Macedonia (1310 AD)
Conclusion of Byzantine Artistic Legacy
Continued influence of Byzantine art and architecture throughout the centuries, with notable works and styles reflecting the skills and religious significance of the period.
All artwork and architecture discussed reflects significant religious, political, and cultural movements within the Late Roman and Byzantine periods.