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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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Abrams
Language
English
Pages
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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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Perspectives, Perspectives (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
709/.02/14
Library of Congress
N6250 .M33 1998, N6250.M33 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
176

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL695054M
Internet Archive
byzantiumfromant0000math
ISBN 10
0810927004
LCCN
97042413
OCLC/WorldCat
37837679
Library Thing
154630
Goodreads
1909115

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