The Hellenistic period was a period in the history of Ancient Greece that falls roughly between the 4th and 1st Centuries B.C.E. This period began with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., and ended with the conquest of Greece by the burgeoning Roman Empire around 31 B.C...
What qualities define Hellenistic art? What is an icon in Byzantine art? What religion did the Byzantine Empire practice? What were the characteristics of the Renaissance period? Where was the Byzantine Empire located? What was the religious center of the Byzantine Empire?
Visual analysis looks at the art's outward appearance: the artist's use of line, form, and color, for example. Contextual analysis involves the cultural context of the work, its artist, and its time period, and theoretical analysis studies the work from a critical perspective....