Early Christian Jewish and Byzantine Art Judaism Christianity

Early Christian, Jewish, and Byzantine Art

Judaism Christianity Islam How are these three religions different? see pages 290 -291

Big Ideas • syncretism: artists assimilate images from other traditions, giving them new meanings • iconoclasm: 726 Emperor Leo III launched a campaign of iconoclasm (image breaking), decreeing that all religious images were idols and should be destroyed • icons: often were believed to have been created miraculously and all were thought to have magical protective and healing powers • typological exegesis: Old Testament themes illuminate events in the New Testament; for example, Abraham and Isaac predicts the sacrifice of Christ, Jonah and the whale predicts the resurrection on the third day

Christ Catacomb of Commodilla late 4 th century

Good Shepherd mosaic in the lunette over the west entrance, Mausoleum of Galla Placidia

Baptism of Christ Baptistery of the Orthodox, Ravenna, Italy early 5 th century

Emperor Justinian and His Attendants c. 547 mosaic on the north wall of the apse, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna Italy

Empress Theodora and Her Attendants c. 547 mosaic on the south wall of the apse, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna Italy

Christ Pantokrator mosaic in the central dome Church of the Dormition Daphni, Greece Central Dome c. 1080 -1100