AHIS BC 1001x Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Christ Pantocrator, Ten Commandments, Exedra
17 Nov 2016
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Santa maria maggiore, rome, 432-440 (current state at left, reconstruction of original state at right) Notice the big flat arch: triumphal arch. Haven"t been remodeled, still survive from late antique period. Triumphal arch mosaics, santa maria maggiore, rome, 432-440. See page 230 which has important episodes of christian bible and the life of christ is in the stokstad. Top, the annunciation of virgin"s pregnancy of god (cid:321)incarnation(cid:322) Virgin looks like an empress, doesn"t have a nimbus yet (cid:321)fluid/flexible/debated iconography(cid:322) Joseph doesn"t have a nimbus, less sacred, husband/betrothed of mary. Wise men that come to visit christ at his birth. Notice gifts, tights, dress of the magi. Reward in the afterlife is to live here. Clustered city scape within the city walls. Large rounded arch that is gateway into heavenly jerusalem (golden cross and oversized gemstone) Parchment or vellum (animal skin- calf or a sheep) (left) scenes from the book of kings, quedlinburg itala, probably rome, c. 425-450.
