create art: chapters 9,10,11,12 pics

What: Fig 9-2 pg. 259 Archangel Michael, right
leaf of a diptych
When: Early sixth centuryWho: Byzantine Art
How: Ivory
Where: Byzantine
Which: The Archangel Michael was a winged Victory

What: Fig 9-34 pg. 281 Christ as savior of souls. 3' 1/4"x 2 1/2".
How: The major issue in Byzantine history that accounts for the loss of art is Iconoclasm. Tempera, linen, and silver on wood
Where: Saint Clement, Ohrid, Macedonia,
When: Early 14th century. Which: In place of images, the iconoclasts used only symbolic forms, such as the cross. Why: These forms where already familiar in early Christian art.

What: Fig 9-13A pg. 266 Throne of Maximianus ca. 546-556
How: Ivory and wood. 4'11" x 1' 11 1/2"

What: Fig 9-24 pg 274 Christ as
Pantokrater. How: Dome mosaic
Where: In the church of the Dormition
Daphni, Greece. When: ca. 1090-1100
Why: The image of Christ as Pantokrater
refers to his role as the last Judge of humankind.

What: Fig 10-20A Folio from the
Blue Koran with 15 lines of
surah 2, from Kairouan, Tunisia.
When: 19th to mid -10th century.
How: Ink, gold, and silver on
blue- dyed vellum,
11 5/16" x 1' 2 13/16".
Where: Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
Harvard University, Cambridge.

What: Dome of the Rock. Where: Jerusalem, looking east. When: 687-692. Who; Abd al-Malik. Why: Erected to mark the triumph of Islam in Jerusalem, on a site sacred to Muslims, Christians, and Jews. The shrine takes the form of an octagon with a towering dome. It was here that Muhammad began his miraculous journey to heaven.

What: fig 10-22 pg. 298
Muqarnas dome, Hall of the
Abencerrajes, Palace of the
Lions, Alhambra
Where: Granada, Spain
When: 1354-1391
How: The structure of this
dome is on an octagonal drum
that is difficult to discern
because of the intricately
carved stucco muqarnas.

What: fig 10-6A pg. 290, plan, Umayyad palace
Where: Mashatta
When: ca.740-750

What: fig 10-25A pg. 301 Tughra of Suleyman the Magnificent
When: ca. 1555-1560

what: fig 10-28 pg. 303 Mihrab,
from the Madrasa Imami
Where: Isfahan, Iran
When: ca. 1354
How: Iranian ceramic glazed tile work.
Each piece cut to fit its specific place
In the design. Exemplifies the perfect
Union of Islamic calligraphy and ornamentation.

What: fig 10-10 pg. 292 Mausoleum of the Samanids ( looking west)
Where: Bukhara, Uzbekistan
When: early 10th century one of the oldest funerary architecture.
How: Dome - on - cube, baked bricks, slightly sloped sides.
Skilled builders shaped the bricks to create vivid and varied surface patterns, some form engaged columns (half- round, attached columns). Blind arcade (arches in relief with blocked openings). Inside dome rests on arcuated brick squinches framed by engaged colonettes ( thin columns).