church of sant’apollinare nuovo (ravenna), dedicated 504
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Church of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna), dedicated 504. Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes from Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (Ravennna), c. 504. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Church of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo
(Ravenna), dedicated 504
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Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes from Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (Ravennna), c. 504
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appearance of a gold background to suggest an unworldly (sacred) realm/ formal symmetry and
economy of means (to reinforce its symbolic content)/ less emphasis on shadowing and more
emphasis on the miraculous event
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Rebecca and Eliezer at the well, from
the Vienna Genesis, early sixth century; tempera, gold, and
silver on purple vellum
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Constantinople in Early Christianity/ codex and rotulus/ folio/ vellum and parchment/ persistence of
Classical motifs and stylistic modes
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Christ before Pilate, folio 8 verso of the
Rossano Gospels, early sixth
century, tempera on purple vellum
Christ depicted with a beard and a nimbus/ use of
labeling for narrative clarity
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Suicide of Judas and the Crucifixion of Christ, c. 420, ivory plaque from a casket
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Priestess celebrating the rites of Bacchus, right leaf of the Diptych
of the Nicomachi and the Symmachi, c. 400, ivory
persistence of the classical form with its emphasis on beauty/ ivory
diptych/ discontent with the dominating Christian culture
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St. Michael the Archangel, early sixth century, ivory
ambiguous relationship between the figure and its setting