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Byzantine art

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A mosaic below a wall, the latter is painted blue and has circular patterns. A man with a halo holding a cross is depicted herding sheep
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Byzantine art, includes a variety of visual art from the Middle Ages and is almost exclusively religious art.[1] The earliest Byzantine art coincides with the earliest Christian art, both drawing extensively from Late Antique art fitted to religious purposes.[2][3] Much early Christian art was destroyed amid the Roman Persecution; the fragmented mosaics of the Dura-Europos church are a unique exception.[4] Art was variously regional and both secular and sacred in earlier periods, but the latter came to dominate by the 6th century.[1] This century saw the centrality of small, portable paintings known as icons and used for both public and private religious worship.[5][6] Iconoclasm... and has profoundly skewed surviving Byzantine art.

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b James 2003, § para. 2.
  2. ^ Cormack 2018, pp. 11–12.
  3. ^ Rodley 1994, p. 2.
  4. ^ Rodley 1994, pp. 12–14.
  5. ^ Rodley 1994, pp. 101–102.
  6. ^ Cormack 2018, p. 2.

Sources

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  • Cormack, Robin (2018) [2000]. Byzantine Art (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-877879-0.
  • James, Liz (2003) [2001]. "Byzantine art". In Brigstocke, Hugh (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866203-7.
  • Rodley, Lyn (1994). Byzantine Art and Architecture: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-35724-1.