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SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Fountains=2C Apses and the Meaning of Water=3A  A Historical Perspective of the Apse as a Space for Images
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Lecture by Beat Brenk=2C Visiting Professor=0D=0A=0D=0AThe tradition of aquatic-maritime scenes was vital through the whole Roman and Early Christian period=2E This lecture deals with the essential question=2C why it happened that mosaics on Early Christian apses=2C on triumphal arches and on clear stories were placed=3F Why did Early Christianity decide to use mosaics=3F The aquatic-maritime iconography was by definition inoffensive=2C conventional and neutral and allowed the Christians to connect and insert Christian scenes in manifold contexts=2E=0D=0A=0D=0ABeat Brenk=2C Professor Emeritus from the University of Basel=2C Switzerland=2C is teaching a graduate seminar on Imperial Representation and the Power in Late Antique Art and Architecture=2C and an undergraduate seminar on Light and Power=3A Art of Mosaics in the Middle Ages at the Department of Art =26 Art History during Fall 2008=2E
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