Choose at least 3 images to discuss for the week, and in one to two sentences, explain why you chose these images. Was it a personal connection? Did you like something in particular? Or Did you just simply choose them because you felt like it?

For your three chosen images, provide a visual analysis. Describe what you see. Think about shape, material, color, pigment (if it has any), and texture. Is it an object? A sculpture? A painting. Observe the image, and simply just describe what you see.

Then list 3-5 facts about the image. Situate it in its historical context and tell me something we won’t know just by looking at it. Consider questions like who made it? Why was it made? What does it represent? What was its function? What’s the connection between the artist and the object?

Images 

Byzantine Images 

Byzantine

Early Byzantine

architecture https://smarthistory.org/early-byzantine-architecture-after-constantine/Links to an external site.

Hagia Sophia https://smarthistory.org/hagia-sophia-istanbul/Links to an external site.

Middle Byzantine

Theotokos Mosaic https://smarthistory.org/theotokos-mosaic-hagia-sophia-istanbul/Links to an external site.

Illuminated manuscripts ***note the importance of books during this period*** https://smarthistory.org/book-illumination-in-the-eastern-mediterranean/Links to an external site.

The Paris Psalter https://smarthistory.org/the-paris-psalter/Links to an external site.

1. Late Byzantine

Naturalism in Hagia Sophia https://smarthistory.org/deesis-christ-with-the-virgin-mary-and-john-the-baptist-hagia-sophia-istanbul/Links to an external site.

1. Chora’s Mosaics: Picturing Salvation https://smarthistory.org/picturing-salvation/Links to an external site.

Vita Icons https://smarthistory.org/vita-icons/Links to an external site.

1. Romanesque Images 

France

Last Judgement from Autun https://smarthistory.org/last-judgment-tympanum-cathedral-of-st-lazare-autun-france/ (Links to an external site.)

Reliquary of St. Foy https://smarthistory.org/church-and-reliquary-of-sainte%e2%80%90foy-france/ (Links to an external site.)

Pentecost of Vezelay https://smarthistory.org/pentecost-and-mission-to-the-apostles-tympanum-basilica-ste-madeleine-vezelay-france/ (Links to an external site.)

Virgin and Child in Majesty https://smarthistory.org/framed-by-the-body/ (Links to an external site.)

1. England