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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4908426, member: 110504&quot;][USER=106483]@NewStyleKing[/USER], regarding the aesthetics of Byzantines, one way to acquire the taste is to see them as representing an artistic merger of Classicism with impulses from further East.&nbsp; That&#039;s where you get the pronounced level of continuity between the coins, and mosaics and ikons.&nbsp; (...Which went on to influence 20th century artists working in more Cubist idioms; the American Romare Bearden is one, who explicitly acknowledged as much.)&nbsp; Then again, if you don&#039;t care for those, I&#039;m out of suggestions....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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