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Throughout the centuries of imperial expansion, decline, and fall, Italy took a back seat as the realm of power moved with the armies away from Rome, east to Byzantium and to the north as far as Gaul or Germany.
Icon painting was at its height with an influx of artists from around Byzantium who founded important schools of art.
Constantine the Great declared Christianity the official state religion in a.d. 313; he later boldly transferred the capital to Byzantium (Constantinople) in 324.
The crusaders swept through the l;and of Byzantium slaughtering Christians as well as Muslims, civilians as well as soldiers.
Venice, founded on its islets and lagoons in the sixth century by mainland refugees fleeing Lombard raiders, prospered from a privileged relationship with Byzantium and an uninhibited readiness to trade with Muslims and others farther east.