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| Painting - Virgin Mary Praying |
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| Dome Mosaic - Christ Central |
Well, the Byzantine architecture and the paintings sort of share the similar color themes - the architecture was more of in brownish and reddish shades while the paintings had more of yellowish into them. Both has the feeling of warmness due to the choices of the warm colors. Red, yellow, brown, purple reflect the warm feelings. There isn't much representation of the cold colors such as blue or green. I did not think it is distinctive. The architecture served more as functional rather than decorative, because well, there isn't much pattern/details in the architecture like how the Persians did. Also, it looked simple and definitely doesn't look like decorated at all. I did not see any influences on the American architecture except the Byzantine interiors were decorated well inside with the bright colors, which is sort of how it is up here as well.
Be sure that when you think about architecture you think about more than just decoration! Shapes, angles, building styles are important to note as well!
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