8.1 Survey the variety of stylistic sources and developments that characterize the long history of Byzantine art.
8.2 Understand the principal themes and subjects—secular as well as sacred—used by Byzantine artists.
8.3 Assess the central role of images in the devotional practices of the Byzantine world and explore the reasons for and impact of the brief interlude of iconoclasm.
8.4 Trace the growing Byzantine interest in conveying human emotions and representing human situations when visualizing sacred stories.
8.2 Understand the principal themes and subjects—secular as well as sacred—used by Byzantine artists.
8.3 Assess the central role of images in the devotional practices of the Byzantine world and explore the reasons for and impact of the brief interlude of iconoclasm.
8.4 Trace the growing Byzantine interest in conveying human emotions and representing human situations when visualizing sacred stories.
IMAGES (be able to identify these images by title, general time period, medium, and culture of origin)
You should be familiar enough with other images presented in the text and lectures, so as to be able to support explanations of attribution and physical, formal, iconographical, and contextual analysis. | VOCABULARY Elements of Architecture, pg. 238: dome, squinch, pendentive, drum, oculus, etc.
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