ART HIS 200 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
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Divided into the (1) late antique/early christian (2) byzantine (3) islamic (4) western medieval. There are no fixed boundaries of time that each are unique to, so each mode of art influences each other in. Byzantine art is further divided: early byzantine; iconoclasm, etc. Western medieval art is further divided: unsular art (ireland england and scotland); Merovingian art; carolingian art; ottonian art; romanesque art; gothic art. Rich men considered aristocrats collected taxes and lived indulgently while the common people in the provinces were starving and hungry. Also, women were treated as second class citizens. These unfavorable social conditions led to revolution in roman empire. Religion is the most important factor in medieval art. People had to find suitable prototypes of what may represent a god. There is a similarity of features in a way a god is supposed to look by comparing deity depictions even among different religions (4. 23 christ monastery of st. catherine, mt sinai, 6th century vs.
