Visual Arts · Art History: Ancient to Medieval
A topic within Art History: Ancient to Medieval, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.
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Josef Strzygowski
Argues Christian art's forms and church architecture originated in the East — Armenia, Persia, Egypt — and were carried to Rome, against the standard account that traces them from a Roman-Hellenistic centre outward.
link checked 17 Sept 2026O. M. Dalton
Surveys early Christian and Byzantine art across the eastern Mediterranean and Near East, arguing regional centres outside Constantinople contributed as much to the tradition's development as the capital did.
link checked 17 Sept 2026