Plan of investigation:During ancient times art in both Greece and Byzantium was significant. The question to be examined is: what are the similarities and differences between the art of ancient Greece and that of Byzantium? This topic is intriguing because art fascinated people then and still does now. Ancient art is significant because it has a strong influence on art in modern society. There are a number of different questions that will be addressed, including the extent to which Greece and Byzantium are different, since they were both culturally similar and located in the same area. 480 BC to 1453 AD is the time period the investigation will focus on. Greece and Byzantium are the two places that will be investigated. In order to determine the similarities and differences, the topics that will be examined are art such as mosaics, architecture and textiles in ancient Greece and ancient Byzantium. Word Count: 149 Evidence Summary: Art in Byzantium: 1. Early Byzantium• “Relief sculpture in different mediums and the two-dimensional arts of painting and mosaic were extremely popular in both secular and religious art.”• “In the portable arts, silver vessels and furnishings, both for secular and ecclesiastical use, survive in significant numbers for the first few centuries, as do objects made of ivory, the elephant's tusk.” • In early Byzantium, portrait sculpture became less popular, and sculptures of religious figures became more what they created. even a bit of architecture. One of these is parts of an atrium that had mosaics, showing the empire's wealth and daily life. This took place in Constantinople at the Great Palace.2. Middle Byzantium• Since Byzantium was gaining wealth, bo...... middle of paper ...... is very interesting, because even though they were in the same area, and you would expect them to have similar art, they didn't yes they did, they also had many differences between their arts, in fact from the information collected there were more differences than similarities. One of the main similarities was the painting, but other than that there were mostly differences. These differences included jewelry from Byzantium and clay tablets in Greece. Then also in Byzantium there were many mosaics, and in Greece there were none, literature was a more common thing. This all ties back to the research question because because there are these similarities and differences, it means comparing and contrasting Byzantium and Greece. Overall, there are more differences between the art in Greece and Byzantium than similarities. Word count: 187