How Did Painting Influence Byzantine Mosaics

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In comparison with the other fields, painting was influenced from antique works quite a little. Because a great majority of them were lost or couldn’t be found out. This is the main reason why the artists created religious artworks and were influenced by Byzantine mosaics and murals in early Renaissance, as in the medieval. But later, there would be an enrichment as against the medievalin terms of topics and colours when oil paint was gotten into use.
In the medieval, painting was just using in churches and chapels to ornament the structure. They were constituted with strict rules and in a formalistic way, impastoes were generally preferred. Figures were drawed in symbolic manners without inspiring by real people. The backgrounds were widely

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