| Description |
xxii, 658 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm |
| Note |
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 23-July 4, 2004. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 608-641) and index. |
| Contents |
Byzantium : faith and power (1261-1557) / Helen C. Evans -- Revival and decline : voices from the Byzantine capital / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Religious settings of the Late Byzantine sphere / Slobodan *Cur*ci*c -- Sculpture and the Late Byzantine tomb / Sarah Brooks -- Liturgical implements / Anna Ballian -- Images : expressions of faith and power / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- Images of personal devotion : miniature mosaic and steatite icons / Arne Effenberger -- Precious-metal icon revetments / Jannic Durand -- Manuscript illumination in Byzantium, 1261-1557 / John Lowden -- Liturgical textiles / Warren Woodfin -- Icon as a ladder of divine ascent in form and color / His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai, Faran, and Raitha, Abbot of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt -- Byzantium and the Islamic world, 1261-1557 / Scott Redford -- Arts of Christian communities in the Medieval Middle East / Thelma K. Thomas -- Italy, the Mendicant orders, and the Byzantine sphere / Anne Derbes and Amy Neff -- Venice and the Byzantine Sphere / Maria Georgopoulou -- Byzantium and the rebirth of art and learning in Italy and France / Robert S. Nelson -- "À la façon grèce" : the encounter of northern Renaissance artists with Byzantine icons / Maryan W. Ainsworth. |
| Subject |
Art, Byzantine -- Exhibitions.
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Christian art and symbolism -- Byzantine Empire -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Evans, Helen C.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| ISBN |
1588391132 hardcover |
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1588391140 paperback |
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030010278X Yale University Press |
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