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Chora Church (Kariye): Byzantine Mosaics & Iconography
What you'll learn
- How to read and interpret Byzantine iconography
- How mosaics and frescoes communicate theological meaning
- How canonical and apocryphal texts shaped Byzantine imagery
- How architecture and sacred space influence visual programs
- How to identify major Marian and Christological iconographic types
- How symbolism, gesture, color, and composition function in Byzantine art
- How to analyze and interpret more than 70 mosaics and frescoes from Chora (Kariye) Church
- How Byzantine narrative cycles are constructed through images
- How Christian and Orthodox visual traditions developed in Byzantium
- How to approach Byzantine art through art history, architectural history, and visual analysis
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Course content
11 sections • 34 lectures • 3h 2m total length
Requirements
- No previous background is required.
Description
Tüm derslerde Türkçe ve İngilizce altyazı bulunmaktadır.
In this course, you will explore the visual world of Chora Church, also known today as Kariye Mosque and the Kariye Museum. Located in Istanbul, Türkiye, Chora Church is one of the most important surviving monuments of Byzantine iconography, theology, and visual culture, alongside monuments such as Hagia Sophia. The monument is part of the Historic Areas of Istanbul, included on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and is widely recognized for its extraordinary mosaic and fresco program.
Through the mosaics and frescoes of Chora, you will learn how to read and interpret Byzantine iconography by combining art history, architectural history, visual analysis, and aspects of Christian and Orthodox theology. Rather than simply identifying images, this course focuses on understanding how Byzantine visual language communicates meaning through gesture, composition, color, symbolism, and spatial arrangement. By referencing both canonical and apocryphal sources, we will examine how different traditions shaped the development of Byzantine imagery across centuries.
English and Turkish subtitles are included for all lectures.
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TR: Bu kursta, UNESCO Dünya Mirası Listesi'nde yer alan İstanbul'un Tarihi Alanları'nın bir parçası olan Kariye Kilisesi'nin (Chora) mozaik ve freskolarını keşfederek Bizans ikonografisini okumayı ve yorumlamayı öğreneceksiniz.
Tüm derslerde Türkçe ve İngilizce altyazı bulunmaktadır.
Who this course is for:
- This course is designed for beginners as well as learners who want to deepen their understanding of Byzantine art, Christian iconography, Orthodox visual culture, archaeology, history, and cultural heritage. No previous background is required.