Author: Evans, Helen C.

Byzantium : faith and power (1261-1557)
Date2004
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherMetropolitan Museum of Art
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook (Exhibition catalog)
Series
ShelfConference Room 108
Call NumberN6250.B962 2004
Descriptionxxii, 658 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Note

Byzantium : faith and power (1261-1557) / edited by Helen C. Evans.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 23-July 4, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 608-641) and index.

Byzantium : faith and power (1261-1557) / Helen C. Evans -- Revival and decline : voices from the Byzantine capital / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Religious settings of the Late Byzantine sphere / Slobodan Ćurčić -- Sculpture and the Late Byzantine tomb / Sarah Brooks -- Liturgical implements / Anna Ballian -- Images : expressions of faith and power / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- Images of personal devotion : miniature mosaic and steatite icons / Arne Effenberger -- Precious-metal icon revetments / Jannic Durand -- Manuscript illumination in Byzantium, 1261-1557 / John Lowden -- Liturgical textiles / Warren Woodfin -- Icon as a ladder of divine ascent in form and color / His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai, Pharan, and Raitho, Abbot of the holy Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt -- Byzantium and the Islamic world, 1261-1557 / Scott Redford -- Arts of Christian communities in the Medieval Middle East / Thelma K. Thomas -- Italy, the Mendicant orders, and the Byzantine sphere / Anne Derbes and Amy Neff -- Venice and the Byzantine sphere / Maria Georgopoulou -- Byzantium and the rebirth of art and learning in Italy and France / Robert S. Nelson -- "À la façon grèce" : the encounter of northern Renaissance artists with Byzantine icons / Maryan W. Ainsworth.

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SubjectArt, Byzantine--Exhibitions Christian art and symbolism--Byzantine Empire--Exhibitions
ISBN1588391140 ; 9781588391148
LCCN2004001565