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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.
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Iconoclastic controversies
Middle Byzantine church architecture
Regional variations in Middle Byzantine architecture
Middle Byzantine secular architecture and urban planning
Illuminated Greek Gospel-books
Illuminating the Psalms in Byzantium
Book illumination in the Eastern Mediterranean
Middle Byzantine secular art
The visual culture of Norman Sicily
Cross-cultural artistic interaction in the Middle Byzantine period
The origins of Byzantine architecture
Early Byzantine architecture after Constantine
Innovative architecture in the age of Justinian
Byzantine architecture during Iconoclasm
Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Triumph of Orthodoxy
Cross-cultural artistic interaction in the Early Byzantine period
Byzantine architecture and the Fourth Crusade
Late Byzantine church architecture
Late Byzantine secular architecture and urban planning
The vita icon in the medieval era
Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials
Byzantine art, an introduction
Byzantine Egypt and the Coptic period, an introduction
Byzantium, Kyivan Rus’, and their contested legacies
Wearable art in Byzantium
The lives of Christ and the Virgin in Byzantine art
Greek painters in renaissance Venice
The medieval calendar
Musical imagery in the Global Middle Ages
Clasps: hugging a medieval book
Who’s who? How to recognize saints…
The medieval origins of the modern footnote
Architecture and liturgy
Medieval churches: sources and forms
The Alchemy of Color and Chemical Change in Medieval Manuscripts
The Bestiary
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