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| Byzantine ivory art had almost always the same artistic theme. Pictures from significant religious events of christianity. |
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| Ivory was a precious material that was used by Byzantine artists up to the 7th century when the empire started to gradually decline. |
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| A triptych. A three part case like picture which closes and consists of three parts. |
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| Mother Mary crowns a Byzantine emperor |
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| The early Byzantine artwork shows that Eastern influences that would be obvious in Byzantine iconography were still nonexistent. |
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| Ivory artwork was also used for decoration of wealthy Byzantine houses |
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| Ivory sculpture that shows Jesus' life. |
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| Roman statues were more detailed and bigger than their greek counterparts. Roman investments on art and abundance of money were the key factors. |
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| Two peacocks drinking from a spring |
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| There were many warrior saints in Christendom and most of them were deeply revered. |
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| Early Byzantine sculpture was almost similar to Roman sculpture. |
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| A sculpture that shows an event at the Byzantine hippodrome |
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| A bust of a Byzantine emperor. |
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| Early Byzantine emperors were depicted in sculptures just like their older Roman emperors of the past. |
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| A sculpture that shows a scene of the apocalypse. |
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| A sculpture that shows the patriarch of the Medici family. The famous bankers of Medieval Florence. |
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| Byzantine currency showed mostly the emperor who was the head of the state most of the times with jesus christ on his side. |
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| Byzantine currency circulated all around the Mediterranean especially until the age of Emperor Justinian. |
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| Perseus. The last king of Macedon before the Roman conquest. |
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| Olympias, The mother of Alexander the Great |
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| Philip the father of Alexander the Great. |
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| Alexander the Great. |
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| Emperor Leo II |
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| Emperor Basiliscus |
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| Emperor Alexander of the Byzantine empire |
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| Emperor Constantine VII |
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| Emperor John Tzimiskes |
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| Emperor Constantine VIII |
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| Emperor Michael V (Kalaphates) |
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| Empress Theodora |
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| One of the most famous coins of ancient Greece. The Athenean drachma with the owl. Nowadays the Greek 1 euro coin shows the same owl. |
