Byzantium: Faith And Power 1261 – 1557
Byzantium – the state which has brought in the big contribution to
development of culture to Europe of middle ages. Here the Christianity for
the first time became an official religion. Christianity affected the Byzantine
art. In Byzantine art the main subject of paintings – icons (Greek – image)
were holy figures: Christ, the Virgin Mary, the saints, and the apostles. One of
the most famous is icon with Archangel Gabriel, Byzantine (Constantinople or
Sinai?), 13th century. There is the exhibition devoted to the art of Byzantine
civilization at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition begins in 1261,
when the capital Constantinople was restored to imperial rule, and concludes in
1557. It is last period of existence of Byzantium and time of last blossoming of
its culture.
One of the great example of Byzantine icons is Two-Sided Icon with the
Virgin Pafsolype and Feast Scenes and the Crucifixion and Prophets,
Byzantine......
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