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Byzantine Art. Oxford History of Art.

Item No: 150:0192842110
Category: 16


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Author: Robin Cormack
ISBN: 0192842110
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Size: 165 x 235 mm (6.5 x 9.25 in.) 248 pages. Paperbound. 127 illus. with 82 in full color

The opulence of Byzantine art with its extravagant use of gold and silver is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and public buildings. This complete introduction to the whole period and range of Byzantine art combines immense breadth with interesting historical details.

Robin Cormack overturns the myth that Byzantine art remained constant from the inauguration of Constantinople, its artistic centre, in the year 330 until the fall of the of the city to the Ottomans in 1453. He shows how the many political and religious upheavals of this period produced a wide range of styles and developments un art
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