{"id":143570,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/the-reading-for-this-week-describes-the-rise-of-a-christian-visual-culture-through-the-byzantine-empire-as-art-history-is-a-practice-of-reading-history-through-visual"},"modified":"2017-08-17T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T11:43:07","slug":"the-reading-for-this-week-describes-the-rise-of-a-christian-visual-culture-through-the-byzantine-empire-as-art-history-is-a-practice-of-reading-history-through-visual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/the-reading-for-this-week-describes-the-rise-of-a-christian-visual-culture-through-the-byzantine-empire-as-art-history-is-a-practice-of-reading-history-through-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"The\u00a0reading for this week\u00a0describes the rise of a Christian visual culture through the Byzantine empire. As art history is a practice of reading history through visual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.umuc.edu\/d2l\/common\/dialogs\/quickLink\/quickLink.d2l?ou=198163&amp;type=content&amp;rcode=UMUC-1898626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reading for this week&nbsp;<\/a>describes the rise of a Christian visual culture through the Byzantine empire. As art history is a practice of reading history through visual images as primary source material describing cultures, a main element of this is being able to decode symbols and understand their greater meaning thematically and contextually.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The Byzantine Empire and the empires and cultures of Early Medieval Europe all&nbsp;developed a symbolic vocabulary that&nbsp;mimicked&nbsp;earlier cultural traditions. Choose&nbsp;ONE&nbsp;visual symbol (the halo, the Chi-Ro, Celtic knotting, or even a color like white or purple, or an animal such as the dove, etc.) and describe how that symbol has been adapted to illustrate a Christian concept. You must include a short description of the symbol and discuss its history (meaning whether or not it was found in earlier cultures and religions and how it&#8217;s been adapted for Christianity). Use at least 3 specific artifacts from 2 different cultures\/eras (Byzantine, Hiberno-Saxon, Ottonian, ect) to support your argument and try to explain the contextual&nbsp;significance of such design decisions. As usual, discuss form, theme, and context for each of your chosen works.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Be sure to use citations from readings (do not use any outside websites or sources unless absolutely necessary &#8211; all of your research should be based solely on the links provided in the OER document) and respond to at least TWO posts by other students.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Discussion posts are due Friday evening (11:59 EST).Responses are due Sunday evening (11:59 PM EST).<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;reading for this week&nbsp;describes the rise of a Christian visual culture through the Byzantine empire. As art history is a practice of reading history through visual images as primary source material describing cultures, a main element of this is being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/the-reading-for-this-week-describes-the-rise-of-a-christian-visual-culture-through-the-byzantine-empire-as-art-history-is-a-practice-of-reading-history-through-visual\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}