Byzantium From Antiquity to the Renaissance

Name: Byzantium From Antiquity to the Renaissance
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ISBN: 9780300167665

ISBN-10: 0300167660

ISBN-13: 9780300167665

Edition: 2010

Authors: Thomas F. Mathews

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With images culled from eleven hundred years of history, this comprehensive survey explores the Byzantine empire's vast range of artistic splendors that indelibly informed the art of modern Europe. Renowned scholar Thomas Mathews emphasizes that the Byzantines' interest in humanism and painting the human figure became the essential bridge between classical and renaissance Europe. Starting with a brief history of Byzantium as a basis for understanding Byzantine theology and art, he places the empire's artistic development within a broad cultural and historical context. Featuring more than one hundred color plates of mosaics, metalwork, architecture, frescoes and religious artifacts, as well…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/21/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.92" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English