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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4220339, member: 85693&quot;]I think Byzantine artists were capable of beautiful, sublime artwork in the &quot;western&quot; mode.&nbsp; My guess (and it is a guess) is that the Byzantines did not consider coinage particularly worthwhile in terms of art - which is to say the guys working at the mint were not &quot;artists&quot; so much as workers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But when it came to religion, the Byzantines were capable of stunning, &quot;realistic&quot; work. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is Christ Pantocrator at the Hagia Sophia (from Wikipedia):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1080540[/ATTACH]</p><p>By Dianelos Georgoudis - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33098123" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33098123" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33098123</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A coin portrait of Justinian from roughly the same time - not so refined, almost cartoonish, although it has a certain royal hauteur, I think, is in my post above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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