Medieval Art

• Byzantine• Romanesque

• Gothic

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BYZANTINE ARTByzantine art is the name for the artistic products of the Eastern Roman(Byzantine) Empire, as well as the nations and states that inheritedculturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged fromRome's decline and lasted until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, manyEastern Orthodox states in Eastern Europe, as well as to some degree theMuslim states of the eastern Mediterranean, preserved many aspects ofthe empire's culture and art for centuries afterward.

The subject matter of monumental Byzantine art was primarily religiousand imperial: the two themes are often combined, as in the portraits oflater Byzantine emperors that decorated the interior of the sixth-centurychurch of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture".

Hagia Sophia - is a former Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey.

When Hagia Sophia became a mosque, workers plastered over Christian mosaics, contributing indirectly to their

preservation.

The Deesis mosaic

Mosaic- is an art process where an image is created using an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stones, or other materials

The court of Empress Theodora – mosaic c.547 AD

ROMANESQUE ART

refers to the art of Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 13th century, or later. Romanesque art was also greatly influenced

by Byzantine art, especially in painting, and by the anti-classical energy of the decoration of the Insular

art of the British Isles, and from these elements forged a highly innovative and coherent style

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The basic characteristics of Gothic art styles reinforce symbolic meanings. Thechurch symbolizes the transcendence of the soul, and the underlying philosophyis to create buildings of height and light.

GOTHIC ART

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