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Byzantine Art: Byzantine Empire
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"Civic Life" includes emblems of communal identity, such as a bronze figure of Tyche, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tyche is a personification of the city's fortune and represents a female figure as a symbol of prosperity. The portraits of empresses on the coins and weights in this section emphasize the importance of women as symbols of the economy and wealth of the empire.
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Byzantine term is used since the 19th century to describe the Eastern Roman Empire centered in Istanbul (Constantinople) built after the divergence of the Roman Empire. The Byzantine Empire was ... known as the Greek Empire because contrary to the Roman Empire the Byzantine Empire was mostly influenced by Greek language and culture.
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Courtly splendor and rich visual arts characterized the Byzantine Empire (330–1453), which inherited the territories and cultural traditions of the eastern Roman Empire. At its height, the Byzantine Empire, whose capital was Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), reached from Italy to central Asia.
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