Examples of Byzantine in the following topics:
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- Despite this present-day appellation, those living within the borders of the Byzantine Empire did not call themselves "Byzantine."
- This swath of territory remained in the Byzantine Empire for two centuries.
- However, few incoming influences affected Byzantine style.
- Early Byzantine architecture drew upon earlier elements of Roman architecture.
- The Byzantine Empire (red) and its vassals (pink) in 555 CE during the reign of Justinian I.
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- As Late Byzantine painting became more naturalistic, bodies gained mass and figures portrayed humanity with emotion and movement; these developments and traditions continued into the Post-Byzantine age.
- During the Late Byzantine period the iconostasis fully developed.
- The architecture is rendered in a later Byzantine style.
- The bodies, however, differ from their earlier Byzantine predecessors.
- The scene also takes cues from Late Byzantine styles, since it is dramatically depicted.
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- The Byzantine Iconoclasm encompasses two periods in the history of the Byzantine Empire when religious images of icons came under scrutiny by religious and imperial authorities within the Orthodox Church and the temporal imperial hierarchy.
- It was a debate triggered by changes in Orthodox worship, which were themselves generated by the major social and political upheavals of the seventh century for the Byzantine Empire .
- Traditional explanations for Byzantine iconoclasm have sometimes focused on the importance of Islamic prohibitions against images influencing Byzantine thought.
- Toynbee, for example, it was the prestige of Islamic military successes in the 7–8th centuries that motivated Byzantine Christians to adopt the Islamic position of rejecting and destroying idolatricous images.
- Define iconoclasm, and describe what led to the the two Iconoclasm periods of the Byzantine Empire.
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- Mosaic art flourished in the Byzantine Empire from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries.
- Mosaics were not a Byzantine invention.
- The imagery befit Byzantine culture, which emphasized the authority of one true religion.
- Although the mosaics were produced before Justinian I annexed Italy to the Byzantine Empire, their overall design is very similar to those produced under Byzantine rule.
- This early Byzantine structures demonstrates the intricate use of mosaics in Byzantine design.
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- Carved ivory relief sculptures were central features of Early Byzantine art.
- Because of this, many ivory carvings from the Early Byzantine period still survive.
- The Barberini Diptych (c. 500-550 CE) is a Byzantine ivory leaf from an imperial diptych dating from Late Antiquity.
- In the Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox world, the disapproval of large religious sculpture was to remain unchanged to the present day.
- The Barberini Diptych is an early example of Byzantine ivory work.
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- Late Byzantine Art began following the sack of Constantinople in 1204 and continued until the fall of Byzantium in 1453.
- The period of Late Byzantium saw the decline of the Byzantine Empire during the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries.
- Once more, Constantinople became a prosperous Byzantine city until falling to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
- The Division of the Byzantine Empire after its Sacking in 1204
- The division of the Byzantine Empire after its sacking in 1204 by French and Italian armies during the Fourth Crusades
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- Paintings were popular materials for representing stories and to guide devotion during the Middle Byzantine period.
- Painting during the Middle Byzantine period began to progress and change stylistically.
- Despite these elements of naturalism, there are some elements of Byzantine style in the fresco.
- The mother and child are depicted with serene faces in the Byzantine style.
- Relate the progression and stylistic changes of painting during the Middle Byzantine period.
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- The Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy is one of the most important examples of early Christian Byzantine art and architecture.
- The Basilica of San Vitale is a church in Ravenna, Italy and one of the most important examples of early Christian Byzantine art and architecture in Western Europe.
- The church is of extreme importance in Byzantine art, as it is the only major church from the period of the Emperor Justinian I to survive virtually intact to the present day .
- The church is most famous for its wealth of Byzantine mosaics, the largest and best preserved outside of Constantinople.
- The apse is flanked by two chapels, the prothesis and the diaconicon, typical for Byzantine architecture.
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- Architecture and mosaic decoration thrived during the Middle Byzantine period following Iconoclasm's stifling of the arts.
- When the Iconoclasm controversy came to an end in 843, Byzantine religious art underwent a renewal.
- This inscription refers to the recent past and the renewal of Byzantine art under the Macedonian emperors.
- This attempt is a new addition in Byzantine art during this period.
- Saint Mark's Basilica was built in the Byzantine style of a Greek-cross plan.
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- Harkening back to classical figures, they created images with attention to portraying strong emotions and relationships between figures—painting that expressed a type of realism not present in Byzantine styles.
- In his Maesta the viewer may observe elements of both the earlier Byzantine style of painting, as well as the emerging Renaissance style.
- The work retains the gold background that was familiar in Byzantine icons, and his figures are rendered in a Byzantine style.
- While his work retains the gold background and gold halos so important in Byzantine art (and to Sienese patrons), this art acts as a bridge between the late Medieval era and Early Renaissance.
- Cimabue's art work reflects the changes that were occurring in Florentine painting during this period by demonstrating both the older Byzantine style as well as the emerging Renaissance style.