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33 questions composed of  11 true or false questions 11 multiple choice 11 fill in the blank and/or use your drawing skills! Each question worth 3 points.  One point will be given to you, why? Because you are YOU!   Good luck!!!  Professor Pepper 1. Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE burying a city, which became horrifically preserved under ash and can still be visited today as the City that Stopped. TRUE                   or                 FALSE 2. This human-made material was very important in building, especially in the designing of archways and domed ceilings, in fact, we still use it today.  What?  cement ______________________. 3. Linear perspective illustrate this ___ iv __.  Fill in the correct # triangular and rectilinear perspective one and two point perspective atmospheric perspective one, two and three point perspective ...

NOTES Jewish, Early Christian & Byzantine Art Chapter 7

Reminders.... early audience halls became gathering places for Christian worship. Audience Hall of Constantius Chorus  = Basilica today The  Basilica's  large scale illustrated the aesthetic that was large in size, simple and plan and no-nonsense  Constantine the Great  (305 CE He emerged victorious in 312 CE defeating Maxentius (son of Maximian) in Rome. According to Christian tradition, "Constantine had a vision the night before the battle in which he saw a flaming cross in the sky and heard these words: "In this sign you shall conquer."" The next morning he ordered that his army's shields be  inscribed with the XP ( chi rho  in Latin) The labarum (Greek: λάβαρον) was a vexillum  (military standard)  that displayed the " Chi - Rho " symbol ☧, a  christogram  formed from the first two Greek letters of the word "Christ"  (Greek: ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ, or Χριστός) —  Chi  (χ) and  Rho ...