Byzantine.

The Byzantine style comes from the Byzantine Empire, which was politically and economically based. While Early Christian referred to "The West", the Byzantine, in contrast, referred broadly to "The East". There were three major Byzantine cities: Constantinople, Venice, and Ravenna. The beginning of this Empire came from the Roman emperor Constantine officially converting the empire to Christianity and moving his new capital to what had been Byzantium. Because Christianity was the new religion, most artists stayed away from creating statues or idols, as that is against the Christian religion to worship an idol; instead, they created wall mosaics so as not to make the same mistakes the Romans made by worshiping idols. This is also why there is such a smaller amount of statues from this time.




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