Byzantine Influence On Christian Culture

We most commonly see influence of the Roman-Byzantine and Persian cultures in early Islamic architecture. Such as, The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, whose function and meaning are clearly Islamic which shows combined and transformed classical, Byzantine, elements. In the Dome of the Rock and the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, which contain the earliest examples of Islamic vegetal art, we find more realistic depictions of plants and trees, but these examples, as noted earlier, are regarded as Byzantine work for the Umayyad patrons. Byzantine art was fundamentally, like Roman art, based on the incorporation of Christian themes into Greek humanism and naturalism. Together, these concepts symbolized and reflected divinity. Man and nature were seen