Anastasis at Chora

Art is too important not to teach. Teach Art History with resources from kellybagdanov.com https://www.kellybagdanov.com The Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora was a medieval Byzantine Greek Orthodox church located in what was then Constantinople and now is Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople was the center of the Eastern Orthodox Church during the middle ages. The subject of this video is a work in an apse of the church that is in a side funerary chapel. The painting is called an Anastasis. While the subject matter is still the resurrection of Christ, the representation and elements included are different than those of the Western Church’s resurrection paintings.