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Woman with Scroll, An Early Byzantine Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (video) | Khan Academy. Google Classroom. About. Hear Byzantine art historians Evan Freeman and Anne McClanan unlock the meanings of a marble sculpture from the past, showing an early Byzantine/Late Roman woman holding a scroll.
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Title: Statuette of a Woman. Date: 5th–6th century. Culture: Byzantine. Medium: Copper alloy. Dimensions: Overall: 7 15/16 x 3 11/16 x 2 9/16 in. (20.2 x 9.3 x 6.5 cm) Classification: Metalwork-Bronze. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1949. Accession Number: 49.60.5
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The Emperor Constantine adopted Christianityand in 330 moved his capital from Rome to Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), at the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. Christianity flourished and gradually supplanted the Greco-Roman gods that had once defined Roman religion and culture. This religious shift dramatically affected the art that was c...
The Middle Byzantine period followed a period of crisis for the arts called the Iconoclastic Controversy, when the use of religious images was hotly contested. Iconoclasts (those who worried that the use of images was idolatrous), destroyed images, leaving few surviving images from the Early Byzantine period. Fortunately for art history, those in f...
Between 1204 and 1261, the Byzantine Empire suffered another crisis: the Latin Occupation. Crusadersfrom Western Europe invaded and captured Constantinople in 1204, temporarily toppling the empire in an attempt to bring the eastern empire back into the fold of western Christendom. (By this point Christianity had divided into two distinct camps: eas...
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The medium of the miniature mosaic icon enjoyed particular popularity during the Late Byzantine centuries, with their brilliant surfaces and illusion of luxury formed from more modest materials such as colored stone, semiprecious gems, and glass embedded in wax or resin on a wooden support ( 2008.352 ).
In A.D. 843, following the resolution of the Iconoclastic controversy, which had raged throughout the Byzantine Empire for more than a century, the use of icons—images—was triumphantly reinstated in the Orthodox Church. This momentous event inspired much of the art of the following four centuries, which comprises the second great era of Byzantine culture and provides the starting point of ...
Evan and Anne discuss Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, late 4th–early 5th century C.E., pentelic marble, 53 x 27.5 x 22.2 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection) Thinking about iconography (continued) What does this sculpture suggest about the experiences of women in its time and place?
