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Istria: a case study for the reception of the Byzantine aesthetics in provinces

After Belisarius' victory over Ravenna, Istria had formally become part of the Byzantine Empire. By the rule, the monumental works constructed in the provinces served to reinforce the Byzantine hegemony by introducing and affirming specific influence through art. The importance of figurative arts in Byzantine mainly oral culture is great. The reception, assimilation and interpretation of metropolitan forms in provinces is much more clearly articulated in sculpture and painting than in architecture. The stylistic and iconographic features of that art represent strong influence of the early Byzantine aesthetic conception. The iconographic topography and liturgical furnishing underwent some changes that can be observed within the wider range of Byzantine presence in the West. Also the reception of certain theological concepts and ways in which the iconographic topography was introduced. The function of that art is clearly presented and based on the Byzantine aesthetic canon, a link to religious dogma, liturgy and philosophy of the time of Justinian.

Byzantium; Istria; liturgy; art; iconography

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