Byzantine Art

Author: Robin Cormack
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198778791
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Byzantine art, providing an introduction to the whole period and range of styles.

Byzantine Art in the Making

Author: Ernst Kitzinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Byzantine.
Languages : en
Pages : 175

Book Description
Finds a correspondence between the evolution of stylistic forms in Early Christian art and the social, religious, and historical developments of the period.

Art of the Byzantine Era

Author: David Talbot Rice
Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
"Useful ... convenient ... authoritative."--The Times Educational Supplement

Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

Author: Richard Krautheimer
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300052947
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Book Description
By now a classic, it presents in a single volume a coherent overall view of the history and the changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, from Rome and Milan to North Africa, from Constantinople to Greece and the Balkans, and from Egypt and Jerusalem to the villages and monasteries of Syria, Asia Minor, Armenia, and Mesopotamia.

Byzantium

Author: André Grabar
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
An unmanageable, but lovable, eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who is a sort of misfit too.

Byzantine Art and Archaeology

Author: Ormonde Maddock Dalton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 760

Book Description

Byzantine Art

Author: Jannic Durand
Publisher: Pierre Terrail
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
For each major period, the developments affecting the entire range of artistic disciplines are placed in context in a brief historical introduction, and the author reveals the diversity and incomparable richness of an art which is essentially religious.

The Glory of Byzantium

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870997777
Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 604

Book Description
Serves as both visual and textual record of the exhibition of the same name, surveying the art of the Middle Byzantine period from the restoration of the use of icons by the Orthodox Church in 843 to the occupation of Constantinople by the Crusader forces from the West from 1204 to 1261. Conceived as a sequel to the 1976 exhibition "Age of Spirituality," which focused on the first centuries of Byzantium. Preceding the catalogue, 17 essays treat the historical context, religious sphere, and secular courtly realm of the empire, and the interactions between Byzantium and other medieval cultures. Abundantly illustrated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Early Christian & Byzantine Art

Author: John Lowden
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714831688
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 458

Book Description
An authoritative account of early Christian and Byzantine art.

Byzantium

Author: Rowena Loverance
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
Lavishly illustrated, this history of the Byzantine empire is updated with a new Introduction and includes the most recent finds and interpretations.