Early Christian and Byzantine art
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Early Christian and Byzantine art
（The Pelican history of art）
Penguin Books, 1979
2nd (integrated) ed
- : pbk
- : hbk
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Bibliography: p. 376-377
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The appreciation of early Christian and Byzantine Art as a sublime expression of religious thought and feeling is a comparatively modern phenomenon. Byzantine art is both static and dynamic: static in the sense that once an image was established it was felt that no improvement was necessary; dynamic in the sense that there was never one style and these styles or modes were constantly changing. The story is not only complex in its unravelling but ranges widely over various media: mosaic, wall painting and painted panels, sculpture in marble and ivory, manuscript illumination, gold, silver, and precious stones, jewellery, silk and rich vestments. This is an account by a medieval art-historian.
Table of Contents
- Early Christian art - Rome and the legacy of the caesars
- early Christian art - the eastern provinces of the empire and the foundation of Constantinople
- early Christian art - the synthesis of the secular and the religious image
- the age of Justinian
- the forsaken west and the emergence of the supreme pontiff
- the troubled east
- the triumph of orthodoxy
- the scholar of orthodoxy
- the scholar emperor and the triumph of the imperial ideal
- metropolitan authority
- metropolitan diffusion and decline.
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