Author: Dorothy Hales Gary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Dorothy Hales Gary
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Illustrations and text combine to examine the lives, achievements, and struggles of the Byzantines; covering a period that begins with the establishment of the capital city of Constantinople in A.D. 330, and continuing through its fall to the Turks in 1453.

Author: Stephen R. Lawhead
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061841889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1199

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Born to rule Although born to rule, Aidan lives as a scribe in a remote Irish monastery on the far, wild edge of Christendom. Secure in work, contemplation, and dreams of the wider world, a miracle bursts into Aidan's quiet life. He is chosen to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the farthest eastern reaches of the known world, to the fabled city of Byzantium, where they are to present a beautiful and costly hand-illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells, to the Emperor of all Christendom. Thus begins an expedition by sea and over land, as Aidan becomes, by turns, a warrior and a sailor, a slave and a spy, a Viking and a Saracen, and finally, a man. He sees more of the world than most men of his time, becoming an ambassador to kings and an intimate of Byzantium's fabled Golden Court. And finally this valiant Irish monk faces the greatest trial that can confront any man in any age: commanding his own Destiny.

Author: Dorothy Hales Gary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Dorothy Hales Gary
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Thomas F. Mathews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300167665
Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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With images culled from eleven hundred years of history, this comprehensive survey explores the Byzantine empire’s vast range of artistic splendors that indelibly informed the art of modern Europe. Renowned scholar Thomas Mathews emphasizes that the Byzantines’ interest in humanism and painting the human figure became the essential bridge between classical and renaissance Europe. Starting with a brief history of Byzantium as a basis for understanding Byzantine theology and art, he places the empire’s artistic development within a broad cultural and historical context. Featuring more than one hundred color plates of mosaics, metalwork, architecture, frescoes and religious artifacts, as well as maps, diagrams, and a timeline, this definitive work provides a complete yet succinct introduction to the full range of Byzantine art and iconography.

Author: Robert Payne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Bissera V
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271035846
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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"Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Joseph McCabe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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