Early Christian & Byzantine art /
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Language: English
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London :
Phaidon,
1997.
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Art & ideas.
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Call Number: N7832 .L63 1997
Table of Contents:
- •Art before iconoclasm •1. God and salvation : the formation of a Christian art •2. Emperors and holy men : Constantinople and the East •3. Heretics and bankers : Ravenna and the west •Iconoclasm •4. Icon or idol? The iconoclast controversery •Art after iconoclasm •5. Orthodoxy and innovation : Byzantine art c.860-c.960 •6. Sacred spaces : decorated churches c.960-c1100 •7. Holy books : illuminated manuscripts c.976-c.1100 •Byzantine art in a wider world •8. Perception and reception : art in twelfth-century Italy •9. Crisis and continuity : the sack of Constantinople •10. The end of an era? Constantinople regained and lost 1261-1453.