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Byzantine emperors used art and architecture to signal their strength and importance. Often, depictions of the emperor were less naturalistic and instead used compositional clues such as size, placement, and color to underscore his importance.
Byzantine art, the visual arts and architecture produced during the Middle Ages in the Byzantine Empire. Almost entirely concerned with religious expression, Byzantine art is known for the mosaics covering the interior of domed churches. They often feature flat and frontal figures floating on a golden background.
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Byzantine architecture, building style of Constantinople (now Istanbul, formerly ancient Byzantium) after AD 330. Byzantine architects were eclectic, at first drawing heavily on Roman temple features. The architecture of Constantinople extended throughout the Christian East.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Art and architecture flourished during the Middle Byzantine period, owing to the empire’s growing wealth and broad base of affluent patrons. Manuscript production reached an apogee ( 2007.286 ), as did works in cloisonné enamel ( 1997.235 ; 17.190.678 ) and stone and ivory carving ( 2007.9 ; 1970.324.3 ).
Jun 26, 2018 · The architecture of the Byzantine Empire (4th - 15th century CE) continued its early Roman traditions but architects also added new structures to their already formidable repertoire, notably improved...
- Mark Cartwright
Generally speaking, Byzantine art differs from the art of the Romans in that it is interested in depicting that which we cannot see—the intangible world of Heaven and the spiritual. Thus, the Greco-Roman interest in depth and naturalism is replaced by an interest in flatness and mystery.
It will attempt to account for the relative weight given to nature-derived and anthropomorphic images in Byzantine art of different times and contexts and to show how the Byzantines embraced or distanced nature through the manner of its representation, whether verbal or visual.
