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Hi Miskin, Ideally I would like to see more in that article about e.g. medieval Serbian art, art of Kievan Rus, etc.; at present there is little on this subject, but the entries on later Byzantine art are in general woefully underdeveloped and require a lot of work. As to what "post-Byzantine art" means, though, which is the real point of my edit: I have often seen it used to mean any Christian art produced in the Balkans or Anatolia during the Ottoman Empire (not, on the other hand, Christian art produced e.g. in Syria or Egypt, which is why I had earlier described it as "art produced by Balkan or Anatolian Christians" -- to my mind this isn't weasel-wording, just precision). An example would be the essay by Charalambos Bouras, "The Byzantine tradition in the church architecture of the Balkans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries", in J.J. Yiannias, ed., The Byzantine tradition after the fall of Constantinople (Charlottesville, 1991), 107-49, which is equally concerned with monuments in present-day Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, etc. The other essays in this volume exhibit the same catholicism. I'm not sure the literal translation of "Rum millet" is relevant, since the definition of "post-Byzantine art" has nothing to do with Ottoman administration. --
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