These are the years of the reign of Justinian I as Byzantine Emperor.
What is 527-565 AD?
100
This 180-foot tall domed basilica utilizes a series of pendentives, half domes, and buttresses to channel its weight into four enormous stone piers.
What is Hagia Sophia?
100
These are the architects of Hagia Sophia.
Who are Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus?
100
This city was at the center of the Byzantine world and represented its imperial splendor until a series of invasions, ending in 1453, transformed its political and religious identity.
What is Constantinople?
100
Byzantine art, especially icons, is intended to be an expression of this concept.
What is theology/God/religion/Christianity?
200
During these years, Hagia Sophia was rebuilt after being destroyed during the Nika Riots.
What is 532-537 AD?
200
Ornate and abstracted mosaic portraits of these two Middle Byzantine emperors (and their empresses) adorn the walls of Hagia Sophia.
Who are John Comnenus and Constantine IX?
200
This man sponsored the construction of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and was heavily involved in its innovative building program.
Who is Emperor Justinian?
200
This emperor was an iconic figure who defined the Early Byzantine period in terms of political expansion, legal administration, religious leadership, and art patronage.
Who is Justinian?
200
Byzantine artistic style is a mixture of these two traditions.
What are West and East / Roman and Ancient Near Eastern / classical and anti-classical?
300
A period of government sanctioned Iconoclasm occurred between these dates.
What are 726 and 843?
300
This church features mosaics depicting Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora flanking an apse mosaic of Christ with angels and saints and seated on a globe.
What is San Vitale?
300
This man donated money to the construction of churches in Ravenna during the 6th century, including San Vitale and Sant' Apollinare in Classe.
Who is Julianus Argentarius?
300
This controversial period from the 8th-9th centuries AD saw the destruction of religious images for theological and political reasons.
What is (Byzantine) Iconoclasm?
300
Byzantine mosaics have much in common with Early Christian art and often show saints in this posture of prayer.
What is orant?
400
In this year, European Crusaders sacked Constantinople, an event which led to a 57-year Latin occupation of the Byzantine capital.
What is 1204 AD?
400
This mosaic decorates the apse of Sant' Apollinare in Classe, depicts a New Testament account of Christ with his disciples, and demonstrates the symbolic visual language of early Byzantine mosaic.
What is the Transfiguration mosaic?
400
This man was bishop in Ravenna when construction on San Vitale began, and he actually appears in that church's apse mosaic at the left hand of Christ, holding a model of the church.
Who is Bishop Ecclesius?
400
This event in 787 AD affirmed the veneration of icons and set the stage for the eventual end of Byzantine Iconoclasm in 843 AD?
What is the Seventh Ecumenical Council of Nicaea?
400
Who is symbolized by the three sheep separated from the rest in the Transfiguration mosaic at Sant' Apollinare in Classe?
Who are Peter, James, and John?
500
In this year, Islamic invaders sacked Constantinople and officially brought the Roman Empire to an end.
What is 1453?
500
This type of Byzantine art shows a portrait of Christ or a saint and is used to transmit prayer and spiritual power between the saint and the believer.
What is an icon?
500
This man consecrated both San Vitale and Sant' Apollinare in Classe, since the churches were finished within two years of each other. He appears in the Justinian mosaic in San Vitale.
Who is Bishop Maximian?
500
The Ottoman invaders who overtook Constantinople in 1453 practiced this religion whose primary art form is calligraphy.
What is Islam?
500
The basilica plan of Sant'Apollinare in Classe is comprised of these architectural features. Identify at least three.
What are the nave, aisle, apse, triumphal arch, colonnade, and clerestory?