Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

above the marble-faced walls. Garlands and decorative medallions resembling snowflakes on a dark blue ground adorn the barrel va ...

occupy a carefully described landscape that extends from fore- ground to background beneath a blue sky. As at Santa Maria Mag- g ...

The mosaic depicting the miracle of the loaves and fishes (FIG. 11-18) stands in sharp contrast to the 80-year-earlier mosaics o ...

uscript painter presented two episodes of the story within a single frame. In the first episode, at the left, Rebecca leaves the ...

the persistence of classical motifs and stylistic modes in Early Chris- tian art. Contemporaneous with, but radically different ...

Luxury Arts 307 I vory has been prized since the earliest times, when Ice Age artists fashioned the tusks of European mammoths i ...

ground beneath his feet. The Crucifixion is at the right. The Virgin Mary and Joseph of Arimathea are to the left of the cross. ...

THIRD CENTURY CE ❚Christ was crucified ca. 29, but very little Christian art or architecture survives from the first centuries o ...

12-1Christ as Pantokrator, dome mosaic in the Church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece, ca. 1090–1100. This dome mosaic of Christ ...

W hen Constantine I founded a “New Rome” in the East in 324 on the site of the ancient Greek city of Byzantium and called it Con ...

Constantine recognized Christianity at the beginning of the fourth century, Theodosius established it as the Roman Empire’s offi ...

stable than the original.) In scale, Hagia Sophia rivals the architec- tural wonders of Rome: the Pantheon, the Baths of Caracal ...

flowers. There is a wealth of porphyry stone, too, besprinkled with little bright stars....You may see the bright green stone of ...

The diverse vistas and screenlike ornamented surfaces mask the structural lines. The columnar arcades of the nave and second-sto ...

then the Franks overtook it. During Justinian’s reign, Ravenna en- joyed its greatest cultural and economic prosperity—at a time ...

of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect f ...

12-9Choir and apse of San Vitale with mosaic of Christ between two angels, Saint Vitalis, and Bishop Ecclesius, Ravenna, Italy, ...

12-10Justinian, Bishop Maximianus, and attendants, mosaic on the north wall of the apse, San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, ca. 547. Sa ...

as taking place in this very sanctuary. Thus, the emperor appears for- ever as a participant in the sacred rites and as the prop ...

cross is the hand of God. On either side of the medallion, in the clouds, are the Old Testament prophets Moses and Elijah, who a ...