Word: mosaicism
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From 537 A.D. until Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453 A.D., anonymous Greek mosaic painters contributed various religious scenes in the Hellenic tradition to the inside walls and dome of the church...
...conquering Turks immediately converted the "Church of Holy Wisdom" into a Mosque. Because the Islamic religion prohibits the depicting the the human figure in places of worship, the Turks covered over the Christian mosaic scenes with plaster and paint...
...narthex of the mosque, workers successfully uncovered a ninth century mosaic showing Emperor Lee VI, (the Wise) prostrate before Christ enthroned. The southwest vestibule was found to contain a tenth century composition which pictures Emperor Constantine presenting to the Virgin and Child the City he founded and Emperor Justinian giving the Church he built...
...vault of the great eastern apse is now dominated by the "monumental" mosaic of the 14th century which shows the "Mother of God and the Child" looking down with compassion upon the worshippers below. The Archangel Gabriel, attributed to the ninth century mosaic painter Lazarus, flanks this scene...
...punctuated by sudden death. But cameramen in every theater were seizing the embattled moment on film, and artist-correspondents were recording bits of the war's hue and heroism on canvas. LIFE'S Picture History of World War II fits 726 such vivid fragments into a monumental mosaic covering every important aspect of the war and putting it all in sharp, balanced historical perspective...