Iconoclasm: The major issue in Byzantine history that accounts for the loss of art is iconoclasm. In places of images, the iconoclasts used only symbolic forms, such as the cross, which were already familiar in early Christian art.
Rome-Byzantium-Constantinople
Hagia Sophia: Church destroyed during riots
Squinches: broader than pendentives
mese: the "middle way" main street through Constantinople
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Rome-Byzantium-Constantinople
Hagia Sophia: Church destroyed during riots
Squinches: broader than pendentives
mese: the "middle way" main street through Constantinople
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What: Archangel Michael
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What: Virgin and child
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How: apse mosaic
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How: mosaics feature people to be flat or not solid in nature
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What: Saint Apollinatis
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Where: Sant' Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy
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Why: ICONOCLASM ^Top
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What: Christ before Pilate
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What: Christ as Pantokrator
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What: Archangel Michael
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How: Gold, silver gilt
Which: St. Mark's Cathedral
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What: Christ as savior of souls
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