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Byzantine Painting through Contemporary Eyes
Visual Demonstrations
In this first diptych, we observe the similarity in the abundance of blue colour which is used in each case. In regards to other colours: the brown of the trees in the Byzantine fresco, shown on the left, is analogous to the band (stripe) of brown colour in Rothko’s work on the right, and the same could be observed in relation to the green leafs in the Byzantine image and the band of green colour in Rothko’s work. If the reader simultane- ously covers the three figures in the Byzantine image and the upper area of blue colour
Demonstration 1
16. Left: Apostles, a detail of the scene of The Ascension of Christ, fresco, 1037–1056, St. Sophia, Achrida, FYROM.
17. Right: Mark Rothko, Untitled (Blue, Green and Brown), 1952 (alternatively dated to 1951), oil on canvas, 261.6 x 211.5 cm (103 x 83.1⁄4), Collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia, United States.
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