Every Movement · Eastern Mediterranean c. 330 to 1453

Byzantine

Gold ground, flat space, eyes that look straight through you. Images as windows onto heaven rather than the world.

Emperor Justinian and his court, Unknown
Unknown · Emperor Justinian and his court · c. 547 · San Vitale, Ravenna
When
c. 330 to 1453
Where
Constantinople, Ravenna
Who
Unknown mosaicists, Andrei Rublev
Source
Wikipedia ↗ · Museum file on Commons ↗
Pushed against
Grew out of