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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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Chronological periods of the Byzantine Empire
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Icons, an introduction
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Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Triumph of Orthodoxy
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Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials
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Early Byzantine (including Iconoclasm)

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The origins of Byzantine architecture
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Early Byzantine architecture after Constantine
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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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Innovative architecture in the age of Justinian
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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Mosaics and power in Sant’Apollinare Nuovo
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Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna
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San Vitale, Ravenna
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Justinian Mosaic, San Vitale
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Art and architecture of Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai
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Ivory panel with Archangel
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The Emperor Triumphant (Barberini Ivory)
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The Vienna Dioscurides
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Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
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A chalice from the Attarouthi Treasure
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Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Triumph of Orthodoxy
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Byzantine architecture during Iconoclasm
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The Byzantine Fieschi Morgan cross reliquary
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Middle Byzantine

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Illuminated Gospel-books
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Book illumination in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Illuminating the Psalms in Byzantium
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Theotokos mosaic, apse, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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The Paris Psalter
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Middle Byzantine church architecture
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Regional variations in Middle Byzantine architecture
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Mosaics and microcosm: the monasteries of Hosios Loukas, Nea Moni, and Daphni
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Middle Byzantine secular art
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Middle Byzantine secular architecture and urban planning
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Byzantine frescoes at Saint Panteleimon, Nerezi
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Saving Torcello, an ancient church in the Venetian Lagoon
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Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice
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A Byzantine vision of Paradise — The Harbaville Triptych
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A work in progress: Middle Byzantine mosaics Hagia Sophia
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Byzantium, Kievan Rus’, and their contested legacies
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The visual culture of Norman Sicily
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The Cappella Palatina
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The Fourth Crusade and the Latin Empire

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Plunder, war, Napoleon, and the Horses of San Marco
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Byzantine Art and the Fourth Crusade
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Byzantine architecture and the Fourth Crusade
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Late Byzantine

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Deësis mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Byzantine miniature mosaics
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Byzantine Griffin
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Late Byzantine church architecture
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Picturing salvation — Chora’s brilliant Byzantine mosaics and frescos
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Picturing salvation — Chora’s brilliant Byzantine mosaics and frescoes
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Late Byzantine secular architecture and urban planning
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Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
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Late Byzantine naturalism: Hagia Sophia’s Deësis mosaic
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Post-Byzantine

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Hagia Sophia as a mosque
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Church of St. Nicholas, Balinesti
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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.