Byzantine Painting by Andre Grabar

Byzantine art is the name for the artistic products of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from Rome's decline and lasted until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453,[1] many Eastern Orthodox states in Eastern Europe, as well as to some degree the Muslim states of the eastern Mediterranean, preserved many aspects of the empire's culture and art for centuries afterwards.

Byzantine Painting: Historical and Critical Study is a seminal 1953 art history book by André Grabar, a world-renowned French art historian and one of the 20th century's foremost specialists in Byzantine art. Published as part of Skira’s acclaimed "The Great Centuries of Painting" series, the book serves as a landmark work that made the specialized world of Eastern Christian art accessible to the general public.