HW # 24   Art of Late Antiquity    
1  Look at map     Read Introduction in both texts. List significant dates.
2  Pagans, Christians, Jews.    Take notes on significance of “Edict of Milan.”
3  “Catacombs & Funerary Art.”     List burial practices.   List most popular themes in Old Testament.
4  Keep reading in both texts. Identify qualities of Roman influence which persist & the ways in which the art differs from Roman art.
5  Old St. Peter’s, begun CE 333.    (Probably the most important design in history of church architecture)
        Diagram floor plan.   Label:   nave, aisle, transept, apse, narthex, atrium.
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HW # 25   Early Christian Art    
1   Read about difference w/central plan church favored in the East. Take notes on central plan churches & basilica type churches with digrams & labels for each.  
2   Look at mosaics seen in Santa Costanza.    List  transformation of image of Jesus.  From what to what?
3   List Four Evangelists. Research and list their symbols.
4   Look at “Parting of Lot and Abraham”     Define head cluster and it's narrative function in this piece.
5   Read about  “Mosaics”      “Illuminated Manuscript”     “Ivory Plaques”  
6   Define     scroll      codex    parchment    vellum    diptych    triptych    tesserae   
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HW #26      Byzantium  
1   Read about Byzantine Art in both texts. Define Byzantium. List significant architectural works (with places and dates) built under the reign of Justinian. List 3 periods of Byzantine art with dates.
2   Draw small diagrams of “Domes on  Pendentives & Squinches.
3   Read and make short lists of notes and dates on "Constantinople” and ”Justinian & Theodora”   “Hagia Sophia”      Briefly outline history of Constantinople with significant dates. 
4   Add Hagia Sophia to Architecture Study guide
5   Look at Istanbul on google maps, or see below. Zoom out. What made the location of Byzantium important to the Roman Empire?
6   Read boxes on Theodora, a Most Unusual Empress, The Emperors of New Rome, and Icons and Iconoclasm.   Define icon and iconoclasm.
7   Define    psalter     Pantokrator
8   Take brief notes on Rublyev, include dates. What is the third Rome? What did Constantinople become? When did the name change. Why?


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