And its significant influences on western art. When you watch your next telelessons, the ones dealing particularly with the medieval western tradition and the early renaissance, i hope you draw comparisons between byzantine art and the western tradition. Im maria cheremeteff and i thank you for joining me. [music] music man in background elena . Come on narrator artists have long been fascinated with the world of entertainers musicians, actors, circus troops. They were a continuing theme of one of the most Famous Artists of our time pablo picasso. His drawings and paintings from the early 1900s captured the lives of such performers, both onstage and off, and his images are still reflected by live circus performances in paris today. circus music applause audience clapping rhythmically dramatic music applause, cheers crowd noise man offscreen elena, its time to go