Jonathan Morgan
Adjunct Professor of Art at Lone Star College, PhD candidate at IDSVA
Temple of Aphaia
Aegina, Greece
c. 500-490 BCE, Archaic Period
The Parthenon
Athens, Greece
5th century BCE, Classical Period
Parthenon
Erechtheion
Propylaia
Theater of Herodes Atticus
Dying Warriors, Temple of Aphaia
c. 490 & 480 BCE
Archaic Period
Kouros
c. 600 BCE
Archaic
Doryphoros
Polykleitos
c. 450-440 BCE
Classical
Apoxyomenos
Lysippos
c. 330 BCE
Late Classical
Kritios Boy
c. 480 BCE
Classical
Warrior
(aka Riace Warrior)
c. 460-450 BCE
Classical Period
Weary Herakles
Lysippos
c. 320 BCE
Late Classical
Laocoön
Early 1st century BCE
Hellenistic Period
Seated Boxer
c. 100-50 BCE
Hellenistic Period
Chimera d'Arezzo
c. 400 BCE
Etruscan
Portrait of a Boy
3rd century BCE
Etruscan
Head of an Old Man
mid-first century BCE
Late Republic
Torlonia Patrician
1st century CE copy
(80-70 BCE original)
Late Republic / Early Empire
Funerary Mask
c. 125 CE
Roman Period of
Egyptian Art History
Portrait of the Boy Eutyches
c. 100–150 BCE
Roman Period of
Egyptian Art History
Portrait of a Husband & Wife
c. 70-79 CE
Early Empire
West Wall of Room L of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
c. 50-40 BCE | Late Republic
Pompeii, Italy
Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
c. 40-50 BCE | Late Republic
Pompeii, Italy
Ixion Room, House of the Vetii
1st century CE | Early Empire
Pompeii, Italy
Vibius Restitutus slept here alone and missed his darling Urbana
(Vico d’Eumachia, small room of a possible brothel)
Gaius Pumidius Dipilus was here on October 3rd 78 BC.
(in the Basilica)
A copper pot went missing from my shop. Anyone who returns it to me will be given 65 bronze coins (sestertii). 20 more will be given for information leading to the capture of the thief
(Street of the Theaters)
Love dictates to me as I write and Cupid shows me the way, but may I die if god should wish me to go on without you.
(in the Basilica)
Whoever loves, let him flourish. Let him perish who knows not love. Let him perish twice over whoever forbids love
(House of Caecilius Iucundus)
To the one defecating here. Beware of the curse. If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy
(House of Pascius Hermes; left of the door)
Augustus of Primaporta
c. 20 BCE
Early Empire
Forum of Augustus
Rome, Italy
c. 20 BCE | Early Empire
Colosseum
Rome, Italy
c. 70-80 CE | Early Empire
Trajan's Column
Rome, Italy
115 CE
High Empire
Pantheon
Rome, Italy
125 CE
High Empire
Dome (with Oculus)
Barrel Vault
Sequence of Groin Vaults
Groin Vault
Aula Palatina (a.k.a. Basilica of Constanitine)
Tier, Germany | 310 CE, High Empire
Santa Costanza
Rome, Italy
c. 354 CE, Early Byzantine
San Vitale
Ravenna, Italy
526-547 CE, Early Byzantine
Santa Costanza overlay
Eastern
Western
Hagia Sophia
Istanbul, Turkey
533-537 CE, Justinian
Theodora & Her Attendants
San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
c. 547 CE, Justinian
Four Icons from a Pair of Doors
Originally from Crete (possibly)
late-15th century CE
Late Byzantine
The Baptism
(aka Epiphany)
late-15th century CE
Late Byzantine
Harrowing of Hell
(aka Anastasis, or Resurrection)
late-15th century CE
Late Byzantine
Saint Nicholas
late-15th century CE
Late Byzantine
The Deësis Mosaic
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
13th century CE, Late Byzantine
Christ as Savior of Souls
Saint Clement, Ohrid, Macedonia
14th century CE, Late Byzantine
Paradise is under the shadow of the swords.
Do not look for a fight with the enemy. Beg God for peace and security. But if you do end up facing the enemy, then show endurance and remember that Paradise is under the shadow of the swords.
-Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, 9th century CE, from Sahih al-Muslim
"Jihad" (جهاد) translates to "striving to achieve a goal"
Quranic Definition: Striving with one’s self and one’s money in the cause of God
If they leave you alone, refrain from fighting you, and offer you peace, then God gives you no excuse to fight them
-The Qur'an, An-Nisa 4.90
Qubbat As-Sakhrah, قبة الصخرة (aka "Dome of the Rock")
Jerusalem, West Bank
c. 687-692 CE, Umayyad Caliphate
Mosaic Mihrab
Isfahan, Persia (originally)
c. 1354 CE, Sarbedaran Period
Quran Page
9th-10th cent CE
Abbasid Caliphate
'Basmala' in Tuluth script
Al Jazeera logo
Emirates Airlines logo
'Basmala' in simple calligraphy
Umayyad Mosque (aka "Great Mosque of Damascus")
Damascus, Syria
706-715 CE, Umayyad Caliphate
Interior of a mosque in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Architectural Concept
Mosque of Córdoba
Córdoba, Spain
8th-10th centuries CE, Abbasid/Córdoba Caliphate
Phase 5
Phase 4
Phase 3
Phase 2
Phase 1
Phase 6
Alhambra
Granada, Spain
Madrasa-mosque-mausoleum complex of Sultan Hasan
Cairo, Egypt
Selimiye Mosque
Edirne, Turkey
By Jonathan Morgan
ARTS 1303, Lone Star College, Prof. Morgan | Updated Fall 2024
Adjunct Professor of Art at Lone Star College, PhD candidate at IDSVA