Subject: Christian art and symbolism--Byzantine Empire--Exhibitions

Byzantium : faith and power (1261-1557)
AuthorMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)Evans, Helen C.
PlaceNew York
PublisherMetropolitan Museum of Art
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
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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