Thesis: What were the modes of artistic representation utilized during the age of Byzantium? To what extent were religious and secular cultures represented, subverted and/or reproduced in art? What was the role of art in Byzantium?
Byzantine art is positioned historically as medieval art, which has specific implications for the works produced. Art was produced based on commission, as such, works were privately financed and their content and style largely dictated by the purchaser. As Averil Cameron establishes in his book The Byzantines “it is only with the twelfth century that artists’ signatures become more common” (156). Little is know of Byzantine artists and “the vast majority of Byzantine painters and craftsmen were anonymous” (Cameron 156).
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