I honestly almost forgot about this one. Byzantine art was very 2-D and the one type of art that we studied the most was mosaics. A mosaic is a piece of artwork that is put together with tiny pieces called..... everyone forgot this word on our quiz. The word is tesserae!
Anyway.. when you look at a mosiac up close, it's just a bunch of colors, but when you step back you see the masterpiece.
In my opinion, the mosaics were really the only thing that intrested me in Byzantine art. Even some of them i didn't find appealing. I like when there is depth to artwork. Here's an example.
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