Reply To: Artistic Conventions

[ckocsis]

As others have said, I think the art of the Byzantine era became less realistic because the point of the art was to convey messages, emotions, and stories rather than be a perfect image representing a part of a story people already knew. Christianity was still relatively young, so I think people were using art to tell stories, opposed to the Romans who were just depicting parts of stories that everyone already knew because they were so old.