Art 9 - Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic Art

1. Medieval Art
• Byzantine
• Romanesque
• Gothic

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Byzantine Art
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3. BYZANTINE ART
Byzantine art is the name for the artistic products of the Eastern Roman
(Byzantine) Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited
culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from
Rome's decline and lasted until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, many
Eastern Orthodox states in Eastern Europe, as well as to some degree the
Muslim states of the eastern Mediterranean, preserved many aspects of
the empire's culture and art for centuries afterward.
The subject matter of monumental Byzantine art was primarily religious
and imperial: the two themes are often combined, as in the portraits of
later Byzantine emperors that decorated the interior of the sixth-century
church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

4. Famous in particular for its
massive dome, it is considered the
epitome of Byzantine architecture
and is said to have "changed the
history of architecture".
Hagia Sophia - is a former
Greek Orthodox patriarchal
basilica (church), later an
imperial mosque, and now a
museum in Istanbul, Turkey.

5. When Hagia Sophia became a mosque, workers plastered over
Christian mosaics, contributing indirectly to their
preservation.
The Deesis mosaic
Mosaic- is an art process where an image is created using an
assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stones, or other materials

6. The court of Empress Theodora
– mosaic c.547 AD

7. ROMANESQUE ART
refers to the art of Europe from approximately 1000
AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 13th century,
or later. Romanesque art was also greatly influenced
by Byzantine art, especially in painting, and by the
anti-classical energy of the decoration of the Insular
art of the British Isles, and from these elements
forged a highly innovative and coherent style

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Architecture
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9. The basic characteristics of Gothic art
styles reinforce symbolic meanings. The
church symbolizes the transcendence of
the soul, and the underlying philosophy
is to create buildings of height and light.
GOTHIC ART

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