Medieval and Byzantine Art - Humanities, Arts Video Lecture - Humanities/Arts

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talking about the medieval and Byzantine
periods it had taken many lifetimes and
countless battles to conquer and
maintain the vast regions of the Roman
Empire when Emperor Theodosius the first
took power he ruled over lands that
stretch from Portugal to Palestine the
question of succession of power had
always been a thorny problem in the
Empire and for Theodosius it came down
to a choice between two sons or did it
in 395 ad Theodosius instead split the
empire in half the western half became
the domain of his son on aureus we call
it the Western Roman Empire the eastern
half was awarded to his son Arcadia's
and became known as the byzantine empire
the two kingdoms both considered
themselves Roman though they spoke Latin
in the West and Greek in the east on
aureus and the Western Roman Empire were
besieged by barbarian hordes from the
beginning Huns Goths vandals and Franks
all took turns invading western
territories sacking Rome became a
barbarian pastime and the Vandals thanks
to their exceptional knack for
destruction violet gave us the word
vandalism
it was a rough-and-tumble time only 81
years after the death of Theodosius the
Western Roman Empire ceased to exist
with the Empire splintered into separate
countries the one unifying force to
remain with the Catholic Church and the
Pope the Byzantine Empire on the other
hand would last another thousand years
in 730 ad Emperor Leo the third
initiated a movement called iconoclasm
based on a strict interpretation of the
ten commandments which forbade the
making and worshipping of graven images
and perhaps due to the rising influence
of Islamic culture the iconic class
sought the removal or destruction of
paintings and sculptures there's one
this way Oh get it get it gutted that
one there's one there's another one go
and get it
ah we're too late there's one there's
another house stop him stop him now
hurry got him in the air ah take the
scoundrel away after iconoclasm ended
Byzantine artists were limited to
copying approved images from the past I
am a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy
of a copy of a copy of copy back in Rome
Pope Gregory ii rejected iconoclasm and
denounced it as heretical he even sent a
letter excommunicating the iconoclast
it's byzantine blasphemy and communicate
them
as a result artists in the West had more
creative freedom the church was the
major patron of the arts and so most
medieval art had religious themes
Western artists of the later Middle Ages
were interested in creating visionary
experiences over time in the search to
create more convincing and powerful
images their art became more realistic
in its portrayal of people and the
natural world
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