Research topic: Byzantine art and architecture

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Hagia Sophia, example of Byzantine architecture. (Image by Alex756)

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Byzantine art and architecture

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Byzantine art and architecture works of art and structures works produced in the city of Byzantium after Constantine made it the capital of the Roman Empire (AD 330) and the work done under Byzantine influence, as in Venice, Ravenna, Norman Sicily, as well as in Syria, Greece, Russia, and other Eastern countries. General History For more than a thousand years, until the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, Byzantine art retained a remarkably conservative orientation; the major phases of its development emerge from a background marked by adherence to classical principles. Artistic... Read more
Byzantine art and architecture
Byzantine art and architecture Art produced in the Byzantine empire e of the...referred to as the Byzantine Renaissance. Most Byzantine art was religious in...most common forms. Byzantine church architecture is typically central... Read more
Byzantine art
Art associated with the Byzantine Empire . Its characteristic styles...architectural and pictorial expression. Byzantine sculpture was largely limited...ivory reliefs. The importance of Byzantine art to European religious art was immense; the style was spread...centres, and especially ... Read more

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