Art of the Byzantine Era

by: Talbot Rice, D.

Price: 19,00 EURO

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Art of the Byzantine era

Author:David Talbot Rice

Summary:For the people of Byzantium, their architectural works, frescoes, mosaics, ivories, chalices, bejeweled gospel covers and many other opulent works of art were the material proof of their greatness and power over the Mediterranean states. The vast range of these riches is illustrated in this complete account of Byzantine art from the reign of Justinian to the fall of Constantinople. David Talbot Rice, one of the greatest authorities on Byzantine art, traveled as far afield as the rock churches of Cappadocia and Cilicia, the tufa monuments of Armenia and Georgia, and the thirteenth-century ceramic factories of Bulgaria, now buried in the alluvial mud of the Danube. His book is a masterly survey of an art of magnificence and power that belonged to a great and sophisticated society. 247 illustrations, 64 in color

Series:
World of art

286 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 22 cm

Contents:
The East Christian world before Islam
The art of Constantinople 550-1204
The Eastern world from the seventh century
Sicily and Venice
The Slavonic art of the Balkans
The revival under the Palaeologue emperors

Art of the Byzantine Era

by: Talbot Rice, D.

• ISBN-13: 9780500200049 / 978-0-500-20004-9
• ISBN-03: 0500200041 / 0-500-20004-1
• Thames and Hudson, London, 1986

Price: 19,00 EURO

1 copy in stock