Description |
xxii, 658 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) color maps, portraits (some color) ; 32 cm |
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regular print |
Contents |
Byzantium : faith and power (1261-1557) / Helen C. Evans -- Revival and decline : voices from the Byzantine capital / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Religious settings of the Late Byzantine sphere / Slobodan Ćurčić -- Sculpture and the Late Byzantine tomb / Sarah Brooks -- Liturgical implements / Anna Ballian -- Images : expressions of faith and power / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- Images of personal devotion : miniature mosaic and steatite icons / Arne Effenberger -- Precious-metal icon revetments / Jannic Durand -- Manuscript illumination in Byzantium, 1261-1557 / John Lowden -- Liturgical textiles / Warren Woodfin -- Icon as a ladder of divine ascent in form and color / His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai, Faran, and Raitha, Abbot of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt -- Byzantium and the Islamic world, 1261-1557 / Scott Redford -- Arts of Christian communities in the Medieval Middle East / Thelma K. Thomas -- Italy, the Mendicant orders, and the Byzantine sphere / Maria Georgopoulou -- Byzantium and the rebirth of art and learning in Italy and France / Robert S. Nelson -- "À la façon grèce" : the encounter of northern Renaissance artists with Byzantine icons / Maryan W. Ainsworth |
Summary |
Featuring work from the last golden age of the Byzantine Empire, this volume charts the exceptional secular & religious creations of the late 13th through mid 16th centuries. Works that had a profound influence on Eastern Christian, Islamic & Renaissance cultures. A sequel to the landmark catalogue the Glory of Byzantium, this spectacular book-the first to focus exclusively on the last golden age of the Byzantine empire-presents magnificent secular and religious works in all media |
Analysis |
Art, Byzantine - Exhibitions |
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Christian art and symbolism - Byzantine Empire - Exhibitions |
Notes |
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 23-July 4, 2004 |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Art, Byzantine -- Exhibitions.
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Christian art and symbolism -- Byzantine Empire -- Exhibitions.
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Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogues
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Author |
Evans, Helen C.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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LC no. |
2004001565 |
ISBN |
030010278X : |
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1588391132 hardcover |
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1588391140 paperback |
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