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Art Bites 144: Byzantine Art in Medieval Europe and Venice
While Rome fell in the West, it lived on through the Middle Ages in the East as the Byzantine Empire.
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Art Bites 141: Feudalism, Christianity, and the Art of Monks
From the chaos and power vacuum that followed the fall of Rome rose feudalism and Europe’s monastic movement. For
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Art Bites 142: Romanesque Architecture: Three Great Churches
European culture finally kicked into gear in about the year 1000 and mighty Romanesque churches with the finest art of
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Art Bites 135: Sculpture, Pulpits, Altarpieces, and Relics
The greatest art of the Middle Ages was Gothic church art: jewel-filled treasuries, statues of saints with the symbols of
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Art Bites 136: Relics and Reliquaries
Holy relics — often bits of bones or possessions of saints — were the “ruby slippers” of medieval Europe and they were