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Byzantium is famous for its gold mosaics and painted icons that represented humanity transformed. Less well known is how the dominance of icons spawned the creation of caricatures and parodies. This course will introduce canonical Byzantine art and architecture, such as Hagia Sophia, marginal psalter illumination, the icon, the Great Palace and mosaics. It also will explore how secular art subverted its norms to lampoon the powerful in Byzantine ivories, amulets and metalwork.