Very little was known in the first century about Christian Art. The majority of art that survived were murals and paintings on the ceilings of catacombs and "marble sarcophagi depicting Old and New Testament stories." (Kleiner, p. 145). From early to middle Byzantine age brought religous mosaics and building or restoration of many churches "until it was taken in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks, marking the end of the Late Byzantine period (1261–1453)." (Kleiner, p. 145) Locations: > Cited