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Course: Medieval Europe + Byzantine > Unit 5
Lesson 2: Early Byzantine (including Iconoclasm)- Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Triumph of Orthodoxy
- The origins of Byzantine architecture
- Early Byzantine architecture after Constantine
- Woman with Scroll, An Early Byzantine Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Byzantine Mosaic of a Personification, Ktisis
- Innovative architecture in the age of Justinian
- SS. Sergius and Bacchus, preserved as the mosque, Küçük Ayasofya
- Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
- Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
- Mosaics and power in Sant’Apollinare Nuovo
- Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna
- San Vitale, Ravenna
- Justinian Mosaic, San Vitale
- San Vitale (quiz)
- Empress Theodora, rhetoric, and Byzantine primary sources
- Art and architecture of Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai
- Ivory panel with Archangel
- The Emperor Triumphant (Barberini Ivory)
- The Vienna Dioscurides
- Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
- Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
- A chalice from the Attarouthi Treasure
- Byzantine architecture during Iconoclasm
- The Byzantine Fieschi Morgan cross reliquary
- Cross-cultural artistic interaction in the Early Byzantine period
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Woman with Scroll, An Early Byzantine Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hear Byzantine art historians Evan Freeman and Anne McClanan unlock the meanings of a marble sculpture from the past, showing an early Byzantine/Late Roman woman holding a scroll.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 66.25.
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- there are a lot of sculptures with broken or damaged noses did this have like some sort of meaning or something?(3 votes)
- 1. Noses stick out, so are a weak point in the structure, easily broken off.
2. At times in history, there have been religious movements against imagery. These are called iconoclasm. If a sculpture has been made ugly by striking off of a nose, that could indicate an iconoclastic event.(3 votes)