Byzantine & Islamic Art

Iconoclasm

• Worship icons

• Destroy Icons

Name, Location & Date

• Constantine & The church, Constantinople, 800 AD

• San Vitale (Justinian & Attendants, Ravenna, Italy, Ca 547

• Byzantine mosaic, Istanbul, Turkey ca 547

Name, Location, Date

• Jesus and Mary, The vatican, 870 CE

• Theotokos Mosaic, Hagia Sophia, 867 CE

• Apse Mosaic, Hagia Sophia, 876 CE

• None of the above

Name, Location, Date

• Great Mosque (4 Iwan Mosque). Isfahan, Iran, 700 CE

• Grand Mosque (4 Iwan Mosque). Isfahan, Iran, 892 CE

• Great Mosque (Masjid-e-Jameh). Isfahan, Iran, 1655 CE

Name, Location, Date (BEST ANSWER)

• Grand Mosque, Cordoba, Spain, 785 CE

• Grand Mosque (Murquna), Cordoba, Spain, 785 CE

• Grand Mosque (Arches), Cordoba, Spain 785 CE

• Grand Mosque (Hypostyle Hall), Cordoba, Spain, 785 CE

What is this called?

• Tile

• Arabesque

• Geometric Patterns

• Muqarnas

Name, style, Date, medium

• King James in the Sultans Court, Byzantine, 750 CE, watercolor

• The Sultans Gift, Islamic, 1620 CE, Ink on paper

• Jahangir preferring a Sunni, Islamic, 1620 CE, Ink on paper

• Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, Islamic, 1620 CE, Ink on paper

Match the following

• Hagia Sophia

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• Mosque of Selim II

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• Taj Mahal

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What is this type of design called?

• Geometric

• Iwan

• Minaret

• Tessellation

Best answer match

• Folio from a Qur’an. Abbasid. Ink, color, and gold on parchment.

  8th – 9th c. CE. Arab, North Africa, or Near East.  12” wide. Islamic.

• Folio from a Torah. Abbasid. Ink, color, and gold on paper

  8th – 9th c. CE. Arab, North Africa, or Near East.  12” wide. Jewish.

• Folio from a Qur'an Abbasid. Ink, color, and gold on paper, Kufic script

  8th – 9th c. CE. Arab, North Africa, or Near East.  12” wide. Islamic