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050 00 $aN6250$b.M33 1998
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100 1 $aMathews, Thomas F.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80096628
245 10 $aByzantium :$bfrom antiquity to the Renaissance /$cThomas Mathews.
260 $aNew York :$bAbrams,$c1998.
263 $a9803
300 $a176 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aPerspectives
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tMap: The Byzantine Empire --$tMap: Early Byzantine and Medieval Constantinople --$g1.$tThe Imperial City of Constantinople.$tConstantine's City.$tThe Classical Heritage of the City.$tJustinian's City.$tThe Period of Crisis.$tMedieval Constantinople.$tThe Decline of Constantinople --$g2.$tIcons.$tPagan Origins.$tSixth-century Icons.$tIcons in Church.$tIconoclasm and the Theology of Icons.$tThe Restoration of Icons.$tIcons in Public.$tThe Mother of God --$g3.$tThe Secular Domestic World.$tThe Palaces of Constantinople.$tThe Fashions of Palace Life.$tCountry Life --$g4.$tA Temple of Transformation.$tEarly Byzantine Churches.$tMedieval Byzantine Church Design.$tThe Medieval Decorative System.$tChrist in the Dome.$tThe Selected Narrative.$tThe Sanctuary.$tThe Narthex --$g5.$tA Cosmopolitan Art.$tArt and Diplomacy.$tItaly.$tPalaiologan Art.$tThe Renaissance.
520 $aFor 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.
520 8 $aIndeed, 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.
520 8 $aThomas 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.
650 0 $aArt, Byzantine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007589
830 0 $aPerspectives (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94079107
852 00 $bbar$hN6250$i.M33 1998
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