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A beginner's guide to Byzantine art and culture

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A beginner's guide to Byzantine Art
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Iconoclastic controversies
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Constantinople and the East

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Woman with Scroll, An Early Byzantine Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Byzantine Mosaic of a Personification, Ktisis
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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Theotokos mosaic, apse, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Deësis mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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The Emperor Triumphant (Barberini Ivory)
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Hagia Sophia as a mosque
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Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
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Ivory panel with Archangel
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The Paris Psalter
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Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
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Byzantine Griffin
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Venice and Ravenna

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San Vitale, Ravenna
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Justinian Mosaic, San Vitale
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Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna
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Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice
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Plunder, war, and the Horses of San Marco
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Quiz: Byzantine art

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Brought to you by Smarthistory. Constantinople (now Istanbul) was the capital of the late Roman empire, but its ethereal mosaics, ivories, and metalwork often depart from classical naturalism.