ARTS 149 1st Edition Lecture 23 Late Antiquity Early Christian Art Continued Longitudinal v Central Plan o Longitudinal Plan St Peter s Basilica is an Example of this o Central Plan aka Tholos Plan Santa Costanza is an Example of this Santa Costanza ca 337 351 o Rome Italy o Central Plan Vertical access is used looking up not down room Ambulatory is passageway around the inside of church o thought to be a mosoleum and used for baptistery o Interior Corinthian Ionic composite double columns 12 double columns to represent 12 apostles Filled with mosaics glass Large entablature at the capital Mausoleum of GallaPlacidia ca 425 o Ravenna Italy o Central Plan with Greek Cross o Interior view of GallaPlacidia Cross in starry sky with symbols of 4 evangelists Peter and paul are dressed in togas o Chapel may be for St Lawrence detail of frontal lunette o Supposed to have held holy grail cup which was used to drink wine at last supper Saint Apollinaire Nuovo o Ravenna Italy o Dedicated to Theodoric He was king of ostrogoths o Basilica plan o Interior Mosaics marble nave columns with rounded arch panel ceilings o Miracle of Loaves and Fish These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Not classicism not focused on nature no depth or background seen formal stiff figures o South wall 26 male saints walk toward Christ o North wall 22 female saints leave from Classe Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well Vienna Genesis th o Ca 6 century o Illuminated manuscript o Written in silver on purple vellum o Oldest illuminated bible manuscript o Rebecca brings water to Eliezer and his camels Depicted as a 2 scenes in one Figures are in profile two dimensional flat
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