Early Christian & Byzantine art /
In the 320's AD the Emperor Constantine moved the capital of his Empire from Rome to Byzantium, which was renamed Constantinople, and until its fall in 1453 remained a major artistic centre. Under successive emperors and empresses for more than a thousand years, artists, architects and craftsme...
| Основен автор: | Lowden, John. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London :
Phaidon,
c1997.
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| Серия: |
Art & ideas.
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Съдържание:
- Art before iconoclasm
- 1. God and salvation : the formation of a Christian art
- 2. Emperors and holy men : Constantinople and the East
- 3. Heretics and bankers : Ravenna and the west
- Iconoclasm
- 4. Icon or idol? The iconoclast controversery
- Art after iconoclasm
- 5. Orthodoxy and innovation : Byzantine art c.860-c.960
- 6. Sacred spaces : decorated churches c.960-c1100
- 7. Holy books : illuminated manuscripts c.976-c.1100
- Byzantine art in a wider world
- 8. Perception and reception : art in twelfth-century Italy
- 9. Crisis and continuity : the sack of Constantinople
- 10. The end of an era? Constantinople regained and lost 1261-1453.