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From Caves to Canvas: Art Through the Ages
The Dark Ages
n.
the belief in a particular god or gods
The Christian religion began more
religion
than 2,000 years ago. With this new
religion came new kinds of art. Artists ▲ This is a mosaic from a
church in Italy built
started decorating the insides of around the year 450 C.E.
churches with pictures telling Bible
v.
to join things together with glue or other sticky substances
cemented
stories. Sometimes artists cemented little pieces of
colored stones together to make pictures called mosaics.
Unit 4 | From Caves to Canvas: Art Through the Ages
