Medieval and Byzantine Art

Art History

A Beginner's Guide to the Medieval Period

Introduction
Medieval and Byzantine Art
A New Pictorial Language: The Image in Early Medieval Art
Medieval Manuscripts
The Bestiary

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It had taken many lifetimes and countless battles to conquer and maintain
the vast regions of the Roman Empire
When Emperor Theodosius the first took power, he ruled over lands
that stretched from Portugal to Palestine
The question of succession of power had always been a problem in the Empire and
for Theodosius it came down to a choice beetwen two sons.
In 395 AD, Theodosius instead with the Empire and half.
The Western half became domain of his son Honorius
We call it the Western Roman Empire
The Eastern half was awarded to his son Arcadius and became known as the Byzantine Empire
The two kingdoms both considered themselves Roman, though they spoke Latin in the West and Greek in the East
Honorius and the Western Roman Empire will be sieged by barbarian hordes from the beginning
Hunts,gaffs,vandals and franks all took turns invading Western territories
Sacking Rome became a Barbarian pastime
and the vandals thanked to their exceptional act of destruction and violence gave us the world the vandalism
It was a rough and tumble time. Only 81 years after the death of Theodosius, the Western Roman Empire ceased to exist
With the Empire spindled into separate countries, the one unifying force to remain is the Catholic church and the Pope
The Byzantine Empire, on the other hand, would last another thousand years
In 730 AD, Emperor Leo the third initiated the movement called the Iconoclasm
based on strict interpretation of ten commandments which forbade the making and worshipping of the grave images
and perhaps due to rising influence of Islamic culture. The Iconoclasm sacked the removal or destruction of paintings subsculptures
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After Iconoclasm ended, the Byzantine artists were limited to copying approved images from the past
I'm a copy, of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy
Back in Rome, Pope Gregory the second rejected iconoclasm and denounced it as heretical.
He even sent a letter excommunicating Iconoclasm
It's byzantine blasphemy. Excommunicate them!
As a result, artist in the West had more creative freedom. The church was the major patron of the art and so most medieval art had reliogious themes
Western artists of the later middle ages were interested in visionary experiences.
Over time, in the search to create more convincing and powerful images. Their art became more realistic in its patrial of people and natural world
I have dimension
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