Early Christian and Byzantine art is part of the Universe history of art series. "An open-ended series of books about art styles, individual artists, and various other aspects of the development of major and minor arts thoughout the world. ... After describing the social, political, religious and intellectual climate in which the visual arts developed in a particular period, each of these volumes freshly traces the genesis and attainments of the painting, sculpture, architecture, and luxury arts of that period, the features that distinguish this style from others, and above all its significance and meaning."--Jacket
Explains how and why Early Christian and Byzantine art was made and used
By now a classic, it presents in a single volume a coherent overall view of the history and the changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, from Rome and Milan to North Africa, from Constantinople to Greece and the ...
Early Christian and Byzantine is one of a series of books which attempts to describe the social, political, religious and intellectual climate of a period as well as the genesis...
Early Christian & Byzantine Art: Textiles, Metalwork, Frescoes, Manuscripts, Jewellery, Steatites, Stone Sculptures, Tiles, Pottery, Bronzes, Amulets, Coins and Other...
Early Christian and Byzantine Art: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25 to June 22 1947
A bronze follis , struck at Trier in 317 AD , has , on later Gallus Caesar is shown on his coins holding the the obverse , Constantine wearing armour and a laurel labarum , and crowned by Victory with , as comment , wreath , while the ...
Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
Early Christian and Byzantine Art: An Exhibition Catalog
This updated, colour edition includes new discoveries, a revised bibliography, and, in a new epilogue, a rethinking of Byzantine Art for the present day.
Great Meteoron, Meteora (Courtesy of the Holy Monastery – Holy Meteora) St Nicholas Anapafsis, Meteora (Courtesy of the Holy Monastery – Holy Meteora) 960. 961. 962. 963. St Nicholas Anapafsis, Meteora (Courtesy of the Holy Monastery ...