An edition of Byzantium (1999)

Byzantium

From Antiquity to the Renaissance

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An edition of Byzantium (1999)

Byzantium

From Antiquity to the Renaissance

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For more than a thousand years, from the time of early Christian Rome until the Renaissance, the Byzantine emperors reigned over a society famed for its high refinement, deep learning, and marvelous variety. Byzantine civilization was both Greek and Oriental, Christian and Roman, European and Asiatic. From the metropolis of Constantinople its art and culture spread outward to Russia, Syria, and Italy.

Indeed, Byzantium preserved the artistic heritage of classical antiquity and conveyed it to Europe, transforming it along the way with infusions of Eastern Orthodox religion and Islamic aesthetics.

Thomas Mathews surveys Byzantine art within a broad cultural and historical context. Themes emerge: the role of the imperial city within the empire; the place and representation of women; urban and country life; the domestic and secular spheres and the religious and public realms of church, palace, and street. Examining art styles and motifs, Mathews gives fresh readings to icons and iconoclasm, architecture, and the decorative arts.

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176

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Byzantium: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
2010, Yale University Press
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Byzantium: from antiquity to the Renaissance
1999, Abrams
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Library of Congress
DF552, N6250 .M338 1998, DF521 .M384 2010

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OL28459247M
ISBN 13
9780300167665
LCCN
2010923319
OCLC/WorldCat
601346634

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