BYZANTINE ART WORKSHOP - August 20th — August 31st - 35% ENROLLMENT FEE

"East is east and west is west, and never the twain (two) shall meet definition"

This saying which is part of the refrain of “The Ballad of East and West,” a poem by Rudyard Kipling, lost its power for a very long time, specifically during the period when Byzantine was the capital of the Christian world. The found of Constantinople in 330 and the establishment of the byzantine empire was the beginning of a continuous development of the Christian iconography which reformed and evolved century after century adopting new notions and shapes. This kind of art was a living organism for over one thousand years even after the collapse of the byzantine empire and continued to represent the dynamic vector for the art of iconography of other civilizations.

The aim of the workshop will be the acquaintance of the students with the "alphabet" of the byzantine art. Throughout theoretical lessons and visits at the numerous temples in Thessaloniki, (Thessaloniki was the second largest city of the Byzantine Empire and is a city with arguably the largest surviving Byzantine tradition) the students will learn all about the course and the byzantine's dynamic throughout the centuries and its influence at the art of other countries and especially west.

A journey of history and civilization within pictures and shapes of the past.

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