Byzantine Art 6th century

Church of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey (532-37)

Interior of Church of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey (532-37)

Interior of Church of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey (532-37)

Transfiguration of Christ, mosaic in the apse, Church of the Virgin, Monastery of Saint

Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt (c. 548-65)

Church of San Vitale, lunette with Abel and Melchizedek, spandrels with Moses and Isaiah (c.

547)

The Transfiguration of Christ with Saint Apollinaris, First Bishop of Ravenna, mosaic in the apse, Church of Sant’Apollinare in Classe

(6th century)

Emperor Justinian and His Attendants, mosaic on north wall of apse, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna,

Italy (c. 547)

Empress Theodora and Her Attendants, mosaic on south wall of apse, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna,

Italy (c. 547)

Madonna and Child (example of reverse perspective)

Archangel Michael, panel of a diptych (early 6th century) ivory

The Crucifixion, from the Rabbula Gospels, from Beth Zagba, Syria (586)

The Ascension, from the Rabbula Gospels

Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels, icon (second half of 6th century) Encaustic on wood, Monastery of Saint

Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt

Saint Peter, icon (6th century) Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt

Christ Pantocrator, Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt

The Archangel Gabriel (early twelfth century) St. Clement’s (Church of the Virgin Peribleptos), Ohrid, Macedonia

Virgin and Child, (fourteenth century)