Art during the Dark Ages

The beginning of Byzantine and Medieval art, mosaic art and Orthodox icon painting were the greatest features of art in this period

500

The Hagia Sophia, an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and also as the seat of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, but during the Fourth Crusaders it was turned in a Roman Catholic cathedral

532

Insular manuscripts as Cathach of St. Columba, the oldest irish manuscript ever found it has decorated letters. Book of Durrow is the earliest Gospel Book that survived from that time

550

Oils such as walnut is first used as oil-resin varnishes for paintings on glass and stone

700

Medieval Christian artwork appear during the Carolingian Renaissance

780

it shows that the Church was the strongest instituition in that time, because it's the only subject of art developed in that time, it include the Irish manuscripts, Byzantine art and almost all the art and architecture of the churches

Illumination showing the Black Plague, this fact was so shocking and there was too many deaths that artists in that time show facts like this mass burial

1349

The Limbourg Brothers show a more realistic work, developing things such as shadows and woodsmoke

1415