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SUMMARY
Constantinople housed great imperial and private collections of ancient and secular sculpture. Sculpture with religious and decorative motifs adorned churches, liturgical furnishings, funerary installations and icons. With the post-Iconoclastic interest in dematerialization of sacred imagery, reliefs seemingly superseded monumental, three-dimensional sculpture, associated with pagan, un-Christian imagery. The continual production, use and re-use of secular and religious sculpture in Constantinople, however, suggest the Byzantines’ concern with continuity with their cultural past. |
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