FAH267H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Socalled, Aisle, Byzantine Art
14 Apr 2016
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The new rome: constantinople and early byzantine art. Body, relic, has holy powers, things that merited praise, made people want to celebrate religious rituals around them. Similarities to solomon"s temple, herod"s temple and st peter"s. Start to enter sacred space, but not hte most holy site. Ark, altars, at rear of the temple, relics. Altar in front of solomon"s temple, outside of structure. In st peters, bringing together altar, place to offer, and relics of st peter. But building formal terms and pagan influence. Like a modern mall, in some respects. Reflects similar with st peter"s basilica pagan -> roman -> christian. Rome proper no longer suitable place to rule empire. Moves capital, calls it new rome, constantinople. Move administrative apparatus of roman rule to this small place. Decision defies history of roman rule since romulus and remus. Strategic, comas of important sites in europe, moving with rise of christianity. Moves closer to jerusalem and rest of asia, russia, ukraine.
