VPHA46H3 Lecture 5: VPHA46 Lecture 5
5 Oct 2016
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Vpha46 lecture 5: the rise of religion 2. The roman empire was broken into two by the emperors themselves in 395 ad: turned into the western roman empire and the byzantine empire. Medieval period 400-1400: early christian, byzantine. Islamic art: latin (western) europe (still medieval period) *this is the way that khan academy organizes the chronological order: they seem to skim past some eras, artificial separation. 7th century going on there are three forces that have parallel development (frankish kingdom, Characteristics of the depiction of body in byzantine and/or medieval western european art include: elongated body, golden background, dis-proportioned head and body, highly stylistic depiction of drapery, degrees of abstraction. The artwork was not quite naturalistic there isn"t really any emphasis on movement, space and accurate body proportions. They didn"t make their art naturalistic because they weren"t skillful idealizing and stylizing.
