When was the high classical period in Greece?
5th century
What is the function of Greek classical paintings?
In sum, Greek art in the Archaic and Classical periods functioned primarily in public spaces, serving to visualize the divine and also to commemorate humans. Its subject was first and foremost the human figure. In the Archaic and Classical periods, art was dominated by Athens and reflected the ideals of the city-state.
What is the function of Byzantine?
Byzantine Christian art had the triple purpose of beautifying a building, instructing the illiterate on matters vital for the welfare of their soul, and encouraging the faithful that they were on the correct path to salvation. For this reason, the interiors of Byzantine churches were covered with paintings and mosaics
What Byzantine city was a wealthy center of trade?
Constantinople
What does Daedal mean?
skillful, artistic
What is another word for convoluted?
other words for convoluted
- intricate.
- labyrinthine.
- perplexing.
- puzzling.
- tangled.
- tortuous.
- elaborate.
- involved.
Why is Byzantine history compared to an accordion?
Latin was continued to be their language and replace it to Greek Why is Byzantine history compared to an accordion? Because the byzantine history was collapsed and expanded, so like an accordion.
How many years was Constantinople the capital of the Byzantine world?
1,100 years
How were the Byzantines able to preserve Greek classics?
The Byzantine preserved many ancient Greek Classics, many Byzantines recopied the classics into minuscule scripts with cursive letters thanks to the Byzantine classics such as Homer, Sophocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and Hippocrates were preserved so we can still read them today
Why did Constantinople became Istanbul?
By the time the Ottoman Empire fell and the modern Turkish state came into being in the first half of the 20th century, the city had long been known to locals as Istanbul from the Greek for ‘to the city’ seeing as Constantinople was so prominent in the region that it was literally just known as the city