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It has been suggested that Patriarch Nicholas Mysticos set up the mosaic in 920 as a record of the subjection of the earthly ruler to Christ and the Church. The background issue needs clarification and concerns canon law on marriage.
This updated, colour edition includes new discoveries, a revised bibliography, and, in a new epilogue, a rethinking of Byzantine Art for the present day.
The magnificence of the palaces, churches, paintings, enamels, ceramics, and mosaics from this civilisation guarantees Byzantine art's powerful influence and timelessness.
Drawing on the inheritance of Greece, Rome, the East and Christianity, Byzantine art flourished for over a thousand years between the founding of Constantinople by Constantine the Great on the...
Byzantine Art