Early Christian and Byzantine ArtYale University Press, 1 ene 1986 - 553 páginas 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. |
Índice
FOREWORD | 9 |
MAP I0II | 17 |
THE EASTERN PROVINCES | 56 |
THE SYNTHESIS | 78 |
THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN | 109 |
THE FORSAKEN WEST | 146 |
THE TROUBLED EAST | 160 |
THE TRIUMPH OF ORTHODOXY | 178 |
THE SCHOLAR EMPEROR | 201 |
IO METROPOLITAN AUTHORITY | 240 |
METROPOLITAN DIFFUSION AND DECLINE | 283 |
EPILOGUE | 344 |
GLOSSARY | 374 |
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Términos y frases comunes
angels Antioch Apollinare Apostles apse Arch Archangel Armenian Art Bull artists Basil Basil II basilica Bishop Byzan Byzantine Art Cappella Palatina carved Castelseprio catacomb Christ Pantocrator church Codex Comnene Constan Constantine Constantine VII Constantinople copy court cross decoration diptych dome Dormition drapery Early Christian eleventh Emperor Empire Empress fifth figures fourth century frescoes gold Gospels Grabar Greek Gregory Hagia Sophia Holy Hosios Loukas icon idem imperial inscription Istanbul ivory Jerusalem Justinian late sixth manuscripts marble medallions metropolis Michael miniatures monastery mosaic Mosaic panel Mount Athos Mount Sinai Museum narthex Nicephorus ninth pagan painted Palace Palaeologue Paris Patriarch Peinture Pope portraits probably Psalter Rabbula Ravenna reign Roman Rome saints Salonika sarcophagus scenes second half seventh century silk silver sixth century St John St Paul St Peter stantinople style survived Theodore Theotokos tion tradition tury Vatican Virgin and Child Wall-painting walls