What are the characteristics of Byzantine style?

Now a lot of people like to decorate the house is different from others special style, then there are friends like Byzantine style, thought everyone usually appreciate the Byzantine style, you also want to decorate such Byzantine style, but our we feel that we should first understand the characteristics of the Byzantine style is what, and in the decoration of Byzantine style of attention is what.

A, Byzantine style art introduction

The so-called Byzantine art (Byzantineart), refers to the art of the Eastern Roman Empire. By and large, all Byzantine art is full of spiritual symbolism. Emphasis was placed on mental images, and no realism was allowed.

The characteristics of Byzantine style

1, mature Byzantine style evolved from the stylized and standardized tendencies of the late classical forms of early Christian art; based on the dynamics of line and flat-painted colors, and not based on form.

2. The individuality of the figure is suppressed and replaced by standardized face shapes, the body is flat, and the folds of the garment are treated as swirling patterns of lines.

3. The whole picture gives a feeling that the soul transcends the body; the three-dimensional spatial expression of the figures has been replaced by spiritual power, which is expressed by the power of lines and the brightness of colors.

4. The figures take strictly frontal poses and Byzantine faces, huge eyes and sharp eyes, as well as the typical golden background. This type of background in the picture of the isolated figure makes the image as if suspended somewhere in the space between the wall and the viewer. Carvings were rarely produced in the Byzantine Empire.

5. The most common small ivory reliefs were used for book covers, reliquaries and the like. In Constantinople, the upper class, a variety of other small works of art, embroidery, gold and colored glaze products are also very popular. Handwritten decorative paintings are not as profound and moving as giant paintings and mosaics, but they played an important role in spreading the Byzantine style and icon painting in Europe.

Three, Byzantine style notes

1, Chinese decorative materials to wood-based, carving and painting, elegant modeling, more than the use of sour wood or sandalwood and other high-grade hardwood, after the master of the craft carving, each piece of work has a wonderful story, and each piece of work can be nostalgic about the past, the future has a beautiful yearning. Each piece has a wonderful story, and each piece can make people nostalgic for the past and have a beautiful yearning for the future.

2, color to dark and calm mainly because of Chinese furniture color is generally deep, so that the whole room color can be coordinated, and then with red or yellow cushions, cushions can accentuate the atmosphere of the room, so that you can also better express the connotation of classical furniture. 3, the space is concerned about the level of more windows, screens to partition, with solid wood to make a sturdy frame to fix the bracket, lattice in the middle of the Carving, made of ancient patterns.

4, windows and doors to determine the Chinese style is very important, because the Chinese doors and windows are generally made of latticework or other traditional Chinese patterns, with solid wood carved into various subjects modeling, polished smooth, three-dimensional sense.

Now very much like our friends of this Byzantine style, we read the article after knowing a lot of characteristics of Byzantine style, as well as some of our Byzantine style decorating some of the precautions.