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Byzantine

In 330 C.E., Emperor Constantine moved the Roman empire's capital to the city of Byzantion renamed Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul). Although Christianity flourished the Byzantines considered themselves Romans. Byzantine art differs from the art of the Romans in that it is interested in depicting that which we cannot see—the intangible world of heaven and the spiritual. The Ottomans ended Byzantine rule when they took Constantinople in 1453.