Art of the Byzantine Era

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Art of the Byzanl'.ne Era
David Talbot Rice 247 plates 64 in color
Here is a complete account of Byzantine art from the reign of Justinian to the fall of Constantinople. The plates illustrate architectural works, frescoes^ mosaics, chalices, bejeweled gospel covers, and many other opulent works of art, which for the people of Byzantium were the material proof of their greatness and power over the Mediterranean states; i '
Professor Talbot Rice was Unquestionably one tif the greatest authorities gh Byzantine art. His travels leci him as far afield ps the tfocl^ churches of Gappadocia and Cicilia, the tufa monuments of Armenia and Georgia, the monastic communities ensconced in the mouritaini of; northern Greece and Yugoslavia, and the thirteenth-century ceramití factories'of Bulgaria^ now< but;ied in the alluvial mud of the Danube. This work providesi a masterly survey, excitingly illustrated, of an art of magnificence and power that belonged to a greatand... Tovább

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Art of the Byzanl'.ne Era
David Talbot Rice 247 plates 64 in color
Here is a complete account of Byzantine art from the reign of Justinian to the fall of Constantinople. The plates illustrate architectural works, frescoes^ mosaics, chalices, bejeweled gospel covers, and many other opulent works of art, which for the people of Byzantium were the material proof of their greatness and power over the Mediterranean states; i '
Professor Talbot Rice was Unquestionably one tif the greatest authorities gh Byzantine art. His travels leci him as far afield ps the tfocl^ churches of Gappadocia and Cicilia, the tufa monuments of Armenia and Georgia, the monastic communities ensconced in the mouritaini of; northern Greece and Yugoslavia, and the thirteenth-century ceramití factories'of Bulgaria^ now< but;ied in the alluvial mud of the Danube. This work providesi a masterly survey, excitingly illustrated, of an art of magnificence and power that belonged to a greatand sophisticated society.
" . ¦ ' ' ^ ¦ ¦ "Of the numerous books on Byzantine art published since the end of the war.
this is one of the most valuabfe and irjformative \ absorbing reading for the
specialist aficf laykian alike" - George T. Noszlopy, Arts Review
David Talbot Rice was Watson-Gordon Professor o1\.Fine Art at Edinburgh
' , University; Among his many books. Islamic Art \s also in the World of Art series.

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