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Byzantine Painting (1551 words) |
 | For the period before the ninth century, it is customary to use the terms Early Byzantine and Early Christian interchangeably. |
| From the ninth century on, the distinct character of Byzantine painting is clearer and more easily differentiated from both Western and Asiatic art. |
| Following the triumph of the iconodules or pro-icon party in the ninth century, the iconography became more purely biblical and liturgical, paralleling the monkish isolation of its religion from the secular world. |
| Seventh, Eight, and Ninth Century Look at Gems (402 words) |
| In the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries, a new literature on this subject made its appearance, probably in Asia Minor. |
| This indeed is easily explained by history, for the Arabs, through their widely extended conquests, were led to absorb and amalgamate the date they secured, directly or indirectly, from the East and the West. |
| The habit of copying, without discrimination or criticism, whatever came to hand, and the aim to utilize as much of the borrowed material as possible, is scarcely less a characteristic of the seventeenth and eighteenth century writers than it is of those of a later date. |
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