1592952694000 1159747200000 term-10591 1702062280098 1702030035000 1702062268747 adlib fitz-online adlib-term-10591 a09f4d4c-0b91-3305-a22c-c3a7efa1f8ed 4 1 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." F.FL.ALO.BCW.ALO.AFU.ALO 1 code F.FL.ALO.BCW.ALO.AFU.ALO 1 Byzantine reference term-9000 adlib-term-9000 b5452b77-8421-3601-9a74-856856af6457 <Early Christian-Byzantine styles and periods> reference term-8999 adlib-term-8999 152ce98a-96e9-376d-9694-7165528f5c91 Early Christian reference term-118060 adlib-term-118060 ba4b30d9-2d15-33dd-bee7-13549e1136e1 Pseudo-Byzantine Byzantine term