Overview

The appreciation of early Christian and Byzantine Art as a sublime expression of religious thought and feeling is a comparatively modern phenomenon. Byzantine art is both static and dynamic: static in the sense that once an image was established it was felt that no improvement was necessary; dynamic in the sense that there was never one style and these styles or modes were constantly changing. The story is not only complex in its unravelling but ranges widely over various media: mosaic, wall painting and painted panels, sculpture in marble and ivory, manuscript illumination, gold, silver, and precious stones, jewellery, silk and rich vestments. This is an account by a medieval art-historian.

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Author:   John Beckwith
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9780300052961

ISBN 10:   0300052960
Pages:   406
Publication Date:   10 September 1986
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Early Christian art - Rome and the legacy of the caesars; early Christian art - the eastern provinces of the empire and the foundation of Constantinople; early Christian art - the synthesis of the secular and the religious image; the age of Justinian; the forsaken west and the emergence of the supreme pontiff; the troubled east; the triumph of orthodoxy; the scholar of orthodoxy; the scholar emperor and the triumph of the imperial ideal; metropolitan authority; metropolitan diffusion and decline.

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