Byzantine art | Characteristics, History, & Facts | Britannica
The pictorial and architectural styles that characterized Byzantine art, first codified in the 6th century, persisted with remarkable homogeneity within the empire until its final dissolution with …
Byzantine art - Wikipedia
The subject matter of monumental Byzantine art was primarily religious and imperial: the two themes are often combined, as in the portraits of later Byzantine emperors that decorated the …
Byzantium (ca. 330–1453) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A number of deluxe, illustrated Early Byzantine manuscripts survive from the fourth to sixth centuries, including Old and New Testaments, editions of Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Iliad, …
Byzantine Art and Architecture Overview | TheArtStory
Early Byzantine artists pioneered icon painting, small panels depicting Christ, the Madonna, and other religious figures. Objects of both personal and public veneration, they developed from …
Early Byzantine Architecture - Bluffton University
6th century CE Early Byzantine art is usually associated with the age of Justinian, the powerful monarch who reigned from 527-565) and whose imperial capital was Constantinople. During …
Byzantine - The Art Institute of Chicago
Byzantine art is characterized by a shift away from the naturalism and idealized forms associated with earlier Greek and Roman art toward more stylized, abstract forms, with an overall …
Byzantine Art – Introduction to Art History I
It’s helpful to know that Byzantine art is generally divided up into three distinct periods: Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George, sixth or early seventh century, …
Early Byzantine Art – Art History I
The earliest Christian churches were built during this period, including the famed Hagia Sophia, which was built in the sixth century under Emperor Justinian. Decorations for the interior of …
Byzantine art summary | Britannica
Byzantine art, Art associated with the Byzantine Empire. Its characteristic styles were first codified in the 6th century and persisted with remarkable homogeneity until the capture of …
Byzantine Art: Characteristics, History
The greatest collection of this type of early Biblical art is in the monastery of St Catherine in Sinai, founded in the 6th century by the Emperor Justinian. And see also, the Byzantine-influenced …