Arte paleocristiano y bizantino

With A Brief History of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, you will discover the artistic creations of the early Christians, which emerged in a world plagued by pagan symbology, which the early Christian artist reinterpreted to adapt to the new religion. From the sarcophagi of the catacombs where religious rites were carried out, to its departure abroad after the promulgation of the edicts of religious tolerance and its subsequent proclamation as an official religion to begin the construction of the first basilicas. You will discover the three golden ages of Byzantine art that, born in the heat of the court in the capital of the ancient Eastern Roman Empire, will develop throughout a millennium reaching the Iberian and Italian peninsulas in the West - with the important focus of Ravenna in Italy- plus the Balkans, Russia and much of Eastern Europe. Emperor Justinian and his wife, the influential Theodora, their great works, among which the Basilica of Saint Sophia in Constantinople stands out, mosaics, miniatures and icons, the iconoclastic quarrel and the restoration of images, the two phases of the schism of the East, the last stage of Byzantium with the Palaiologos and its fall to the Ottoman Turks, which marks the end of the Middle Ages. An exciting content, essential to delve into the knowledge of the origins of Christian art and understand that plastic creation is imposed as a vehicle for expression and religious propaganda.