Art History -Chap 7 - Images

1/3 of the images

7-14 Santa Costanza

• Consists of large rotunda with an encircling barrel vaulted passageway called ambulatory
  
• Part of the mausoleum of Constantina
  
• Now dedicated to Santa Costanza
  
• Composite capitals
  

  
  

  7-15 Harvesting of Grapes
  

• Mosaic in ambulatory vault of the Church of Santa Costanza
  
• Decorated with a tangle of grapevines and puttis (naked male angels)
  
• Roman style, technique, and subject
  

  
  

  7-17 Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
  

• Exterior and interior of chapel differ greatly to represent passage from the real world to the supernatural one
  
• Lunette mosaic of Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
  
• Sarcophagus in niches
  

  
  

  7-18 Good Shepard
  

• Mosaic in the lunette above the west entrance to the Mausoleum of Galla
  
• Contains classical elements:
  
  • Illusionistic shading suggesting a single light source
    
  • Intimation of landscape in rocks and foilage
    
• Changes in the conception of Jesus the Shepherd
  
  • Once depicted as a simple shepherd boy carrying a sheep
    
  • Here a young adult with a golden halo, in imperial robes, and a staff with a cross at the end instead of a shepherds crook
    
• Stylized landscaped elements more rigid