1. Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe (near Ravenna), c. 530 CE

2. Transfiguration of Christ/ four evangelists/ the hand of god at the top of the apse/ depiction of sheep

3. Apollinaris and his chasuble with bees/ use of flat symbols to clearly tell a story (avoidance of overlapping)/ Monophysitism

4. Transfiguration of Jesus, apse mosaic from the Church of the Virgin at the monastery of Saint Catherine (Mount Sinai, Egypt), c. 565

5. mandorla (vesica pisces)/ use of a field of gold/ floating, elongated figures

6. Ascension of Christ, from the Rabbula Gospels (Zagba, Syria), 586 Rabbula Gospels/ Ascension of Christ/ importance of the Theotokos/ possibly based on a lost painting or mosaic

8. Virgin (Thetokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George, sixth or early seventh century icon, encaustic on wood icon/ frontality of figures/ iconoclasts and iconophiles/ eyes of the saints

9. Sixth century icons form the monastery of St. Catherine (Mt. Sinai, Egypt) Left: Blessing Christ Right: St. Peter

11. David composing the Psalms, from the Paris Psalter, c. 950-970, tempera on vellum reaction against Iconoclasm/ Basil I/ mixture of pagan and Biblical images/ renewed interest in Classical imagery

12. Isaiah’s Prayer, from the Paris Psalter

13. The Harbaville Triptych, c. 950, ivory use of a triptych/ Deesis / natural, classicizing spirit

14. Back of The Harbaville Triptych

15. St. Marks (Venice) begun 1063 St. Mark/ Greek cross plan

16. Below: St. Mark on his way to Alexandria Left: Burial of St. Mark

17. five pendentive domes/ Christian orthodox rituals of the proskynesis and the aspasmos/bema

19. bold asymmetrical mosaic compositions/ Anastasis/ jagged angularities and schematic drapery

21. Agony in the Garden

22. a quadriga of gilded bronze horses