Maniera greca

thumb|right|Madonna and Child, Berlinghiero, c. 1230, tempera on wood, with [[gold ground, Metropolitan Museum of Art.]] Italo-Byzantine is a style term in art history, mostly used for medieval paintings produced in Italy under heavy influence from Byzantine art. It initially covers religious paintings copying or imitating the standard Byzantine icon types, but painted by artists without a training in Byzantine techniques. These are versions of Byzantine icons, most of the Madonna and Child, but also of other subjects; essentially they introduced the relatively small portable painting with a f