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Art Movements: Byzantine Movement

Dates:

5th century AD until 1453

Aesthetic Characteristics:

Spiritual symbolism Love of splendor (rich colors) Splendor matched with stiffness and formality Icons “Truth to nature” Mosaics

Influences on the Movement:

Religion Roman and Greek art and styles. (especially in mosaics and sculptures) Eastern traditions (domes and spires) Egyptian art Classical Western art Oriental/ Near East (since part of the empire was in Africa and Asia)

Significant Artists:

Siena da Guido Pietro Lorenzetti Lippo Memmi Theophanes the Greek Pietro Cavallini

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Hagia Sophia in Istanbul

Table support with Orpheus

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Justinian and His Attendants.

Ravenna

Mosaic Icon of the Virgin Glykophilousa

Icon of St George