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Author Evans, Helen C.

Title Byzantium : faith and power (1261-1557) / edited by Helen C. Evans
Published New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2004

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Description xxii, 658 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) color maps, portraits (some color) ; 32 cm
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
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
Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Art, Byzantine -- Exhibitions.
Christian art and symbolism -- Byzantine Empire -- Exhibitions.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogues
Exhibition catalogs.
Author Evans, Helen C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
LC no. 2004001565
ISBN 030010278X :
1588391132 hardcover
1588391140 paperback