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Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, ... this screen, bearing images, is the iconostasis.
Byzantine church buildings (2 C, 18 P) M. Byzantine mosques (empty) P. Byzantine palaces (1 C, 10 P) S. Byzantine synagogues (11 P) This page was last edited on ...
Exterior view of St. Vitale. The Basilica of San Vitale is a late antique church in Ravenna, Italy.The sixth-century church is an important surviving example of early Byzantine art and architecture, and its mosaics in particular are some of the most-studied works in Byzantine art.
List of Byzantine monuments in Istanbul (historic Constantinople). This list is not complete. (By alphabetical order) A Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque; B Basilica Cistern;
As an outstanding example of early Byzantine art and architecture, in addition to the importance of the Rotunda as one of the earliest Christian monuments in the Eastern Roman Empire, both sites were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988 as part of the Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki. [1]
Selected pictures. ... Map of the city of Constantinople during the Byzantine period. This page was last edited on 4 September 2018, at 23:59 (UTC ...
Byzantine architecture – from the two periods of the Byzantine Empire, c. 330 CE–1204, and c. 1261–1453. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 ...
In Byzantine religious art, unlike the Classical Greek and Roman art that preceded it, symbolism became more important than realism. Instead of concentrating on making the most realistic images possible, mosaic artists of this time wanted to create idealized and sometimes exaggerated images of what existed inside the soul of a person.