Byzantine art
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Clockwise, from top left:
- Christ Pantocrator (Sinai)
- Angels from the from the Hosios Loukas mosaics
- Mosaic of Christ as the Good Shepherd, c. 425 – c. 430, Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
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.
References
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edit- ^ a b James 2003, § para. 2.
- ^ Cormack 2018, pp. 11–12.
- ^ Rodley 1994, p. 2.
- ^ Rodley 1994, pp. 12–14.
- ^ Rodley 1994, pp. 101–102.
- ^ Cormack 2018, p. 2.
Sources
edit- 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.
- Grove: [1]
- Lowden, John (1997). Early Christian & Byzantine Art. London: Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0-7148-3168-8.
- Mango, Cyril (1986) [1972]. The Art of the Byzantine Empire, 312‒1453: Sources and Documents. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-13-047027-0.