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San Vitale. Baptistery. Early Christian and Byzantine. Columns descend in the following categories: period, cultural idea, dominant mode, technique, effect naturalist (the representation is the artistic focus) vs abstract (the referent is the artistic focus). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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San Vitale

Baptistery

Early Christian and ByzantineHellenic Roman Early Christian Byzantine

Humanism [Cosmopolitanism] [Divinism] [Divinism]

Idealism [Stoicism/Epicureanism][conservatism]

mysticism, inheritance of Greece and Rome

mysticism, [inheritance of the East]

Rationalism Utilitarianism organization copying

symbolism, [natural and common]

symbolism, abstract and hierarchical

restraint, nobility didactic, functional, pious

devout, active, inclusive

obedient, passive, subordinate

Columns descend in the following categories: period, cultural idea, dominant mode, technique, effect

naturalist (the representation is the artistic focus) vsabstract (the referent is the artistic focus)

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