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In a Byzantine church, a dome sits over a square bay, with curved triangular supports filling the four corners. What do those supports accomplish?
In Hagia Sophia, the curved triangular masonry between the four arches and the dome is called what?
A viewer sees enormous piers below Hagia Sophia's dome rather than thin columns. What structural job do the piers perform?
Hagia Sophia's first dome collapsed after an earthquake in 558. How was the replacement dome changed?
In a domed church, semi-domes press outward against the central dome's supporting arches. What is their main structural role?
After the Nika revolt destroyed the earlier cathedral in 532, which ruler ordered Hagia Sophia rebuilt?
Which pair designed Justinian's Hagia Sophia of 532–537?
A ring of forty windows cuts through the base of Hagia Sophia's dome. What visual effect does this produce?
Why would Justinian's vast, light-filled church be an effective imperial statement?
The plan shows one church organized around a domed center and another organized along a long nave toward an apse. Which plan describes San Vitale?
In San Vitale's Justinian panel, the emperor stands frontally in purple with a halo, holding a paten. What does this imagery assert?
San Vitale places Justinian between clergy on one side and officials and soldiers on the other. What relationship does this arrangement visualize?
Theodora carries a chalice in her San Vitale mosaic. Why is that vessel important to the panel's message?
Why is the Justinian mosaic placed in San Vitale's chancel, the space around the altar?
San Vitale was consecrated in Ravenna in 547, far from Constantinople. Why do its imperial mosaics matter politically?
San Vitale's domed central space is built on what shape?
A mosaic figure is built from many small cubes of glass, stone, or similar material. What is one cube called?
Byzantine artists often set gold tesserae at slightly different angles. What does that uneven surface do?
A Byzantine mosaic places a frontal saint against a flat gold ground rather than in a receding landscape. What does the gold ground suggest?
The figures in the Theodora mosaic look frontal, elongated, and formally posed instead of casually observed. What is the most likely purpose of this convention?
True or False: Byzantine gold tesserae were made by sealing thin gold leaf between layers of glass.
A portable painted panel represents Christ, the Virgin, or a saint for devotion. What is this kind of sacred image called?
The Virgin and Child icon at Saint Catherine's Monastery includes Saints Theodore and George. What does the title Theotokos identify about Mary?
The sixth- or early seventh-century Sinai Virgin and Child panel was made with encaustic. What does encaustic paint use as its binder?
Why did Byzantine iconoclasts oppose many religious images?
Which dates identify the two major Byzantine iconoclast periods?
Why did early Byzantine icons at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Sinai survive when many images in the empire did not?
The Vienna Genesis uses silver ink on purple-dyed parchment. What does this material choice indicate about its intended owner?
In a Vienna Genesis page, Rebecca appears more than once within one painted setting to show successive moments of the story. What narrative device is this?
The David Plates, made in Constantinople in 629–630, use biblical scenes and Byzantine court costume. What political comparison do they encourage?
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