The willingness of the Cretan School to simply accept Western affect was atypical; in many of the post-Byzantine world “as an instrument of ethnic cohesiveness, art grew to become assertively conservative during the Turcocratia” . In specific, groups of mosaic artists have been dispatched as diplomatic gestures by emperors to Italy, where they typically trained locals to continue their work in a style heavily influenced by Byzantium. In common, Byzantine artistic affect on Europe was in steep decline by the 14th century if not earlier, despite the continued significance of migrated Byzantine scholars within the Renaissance in other areas. Byzantine…
