Early Christian And Byzantine 2

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St. Simeon Stylites, Qal’at Sim’an
Syria
480-90

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Roman Vergil, late 5th cent.

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Passion Ivories, c. 400 - Crucifixion and Death of Judas

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Trier Ivory, 5th cent. (?)

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Diptych of Boethius, 487

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San Vitale, Ravenna, 526-48

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Sant’Apollinare in Classe, near Ravenna, 549

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Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, 532-37, Architects: Anthemios of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus

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Monastery of St. Catherine, Mt. Sinai, 548-65, Architect: Stephen of Aila, Abbot Longinus

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Diptych of an Empress (Ariadne?), c. 500-20

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Barberini Diptych (Justinian), 530-35

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Cathedra of Archbishop Maximianus, c. 547

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Vienna Dioscurides, 512 - Anicia Juliana

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Rossano Gospels, c. 550

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Rabbula Gospels, c. 586

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David Plates, c. 620

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Virgin and Child with Sts. George and Theodore, icon, c. 600 - encaustic (Mt. Sinai)

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Christ, icon, c. 600 (Mt. Sinai)

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Mosaics, Hagios Demetrios, Thessaloniki, c. 650

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Khuldov Psalter, c. 850 - Nicephoros, John the Grammarian

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Mosaics, Church of the Koimesis (Dormition) (destroyed), Nicaea, 8th-9th cent.

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Church of the Koimesis (Dormition) (destroyed), Nicaea, c. 700 - Cross-Domed Church

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Hagia Sophia, Thessaloniki, c. 700; dome mosaic, late 9th cent.

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Leo VI the Wise before Christ, narthex, H. Sophia, Constantinople, after 912 - proskynesis

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North Church, Monastery of Constantine Lips (Fenari Isa Camii), Constantinople, 907

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Great Lavra Monastery, Mt. Athos, founded 963 - katholikon, phiale, trapeza

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40 Martyrs of Sebaste [Berlin], 10th cent.

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Joshua Roll, c. 950

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