Overview

This survey and analysis of Byzantine art and architecture traces the influences, features, nature and variants of the visual expression of this period, with sections on religious and civic architecture, mosaics, mural painting, sculpture, icons and manuscript illumination. It includes discussion of artistic trends and developments in Constantinople, in various parts of the Byzantine Empire and Exarchate of Ravenna, including Sicily, Bulgaria, Serbia, Cappadocia, Armenia and Georgia, and examinations of the further-reaching influences of Byzantine art in Europe, as this spread out both geographically, through the continuation of the Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe, and temporally, in later artistic developments up to and including the abstract movements of the twentieth century.

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Author:   Elisabeth Piltz
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Volume:   No. 1669
Weight:   0.311kg
ISBN:  

9781407301044

ISBN 10:   1407301047
Pages:   78
Publication Date:   15 August 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Chapter l. The raison d´être of the research on Byzantium (The abstract image in Late antiquity and Byzantium the New Rome - the Renaissances); Chapter 2. Byzantine architecture I (A synthesis of Late antique and Oriental influences - the transformation of the Christian basilica - Constantinople the Queen of Cities - the Sacred palace - House churches and Martyria - Imperial basilicas - Palaces); Chapter 3. Byzantine architecture II (The Exarchate of Ravenna - the development on Sicily in Bulgaria in Serbia Cappadocia Armenia and Georgia); Chapter 4. Byzantine sculpture (Statues reliefs ivory plates steatites); Chapter 5. Mosaics and mural painting (Pearl hosiery and artistic handicraft); Chapter 6. The manuscript illuminations (From rotulus to codex - luxurious manuscripts as gifts and liturgical mass production); Chapter 7. The painting on the Balkans and in Scandinavia; Chapter 8. Rus´ (Kiev a new Constantinople - Moscow the Third Rome the New Jerusalem); Chapter 9. Iconology (The world as icon - the Iconoclasm and the attitude of the Popes); Chapter 10. Byzantium and the Periphery (Postbyzantine art - Greece Bulgaria Serbia Romania Russia - the Manuels of painting - the Abstract art and the 20th century)

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