Late Antique Byzantine Architecture and Art

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Late Antique and Byzantine Architecture and Art looks at the architectural and artistic production from the late Roman times, now known as Late Antiquity, through the end of the Byzantine Empire. The historical period covered goes from the 4th century to the end of the Byzantine empire in 1453.Geographically the course focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean, on Constantinople (modern Istanbul) as the capital city of Byzantium, on some regions of the Western Mediterranean and on particular works of architecture and arts representative of the periods considered.KU course # ARHA 318.