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Byzantine

Scope note

Refers to the style and period of Christian art that developed in the easstern Mediterranean during the Byzantine Empire (330 - 1453 CE), was carried throughout much of the Christian world, and lasted into the 16th century in eastern Europe. The style is characterized by imperial and religious subject matter, and a movement away from the original Greek naturalistic forms to favor ritualistic stylization, intended to suggest the spiritual. For the style and period of the Italian and western Mediterranean Christian world roughly from the foruth to the mid-eighth century CE, use "Early Christian."

This term has 506 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
School / style
Period
Object name

Getty AAT term number

300020669

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Follis

Maker(s)

State: Roman Empire

Follis

Maker(s)

State: Roman Empire

Crucifixion

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

Rosette Casket

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

Sherds

Maker(s)

Potter: Unknown

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