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Hagia Sophia
Date: 530
Patron: Justinian
Location: Constantinople/Byzantine/Istanbull
Techniques: Pendentives
Light: Clerestory of windows suround base of dome.
Functions: Makes the dome float, create mystical atmosphere, illuminate
After Byzantine Empire
1. Mosque
2. Mosaics plastered over
3. Minarets added in the 1400's
4. Now it is a museum
Byzantine Art : 3 F's and a G
Flat-stylized, no volume
Floating-figures appear to flaot
Frontal-little overlapping
Gold Background- Eternity, heaven
Justinian Mosaic 530
Location: San Vitale, Ravenna
Material: Mosaic
Icons
Images of holy figures painted on wooden panels
1. Christians believed icons ahd special powers of healing and protection
2.Christians prayed to the icons in hopes of miracles
3.Made of wax
Andrei Rublyev:Russian Ican Painter
Date:1400
Location:Russia
Artist: Andrei Rublyev
Subject:3 old testament angels wjo appear to Abraham
Paris Psalter A.D 950
Psalter:Book ag Phsalms