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Early Christian & Byzantine art
- Title
- Early Christian & Byzantine art / John Lowden.
- Author
- Lowden, John.
- Publication
- London : Phaidon, 1997.
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- Description
- 447 pages : illustrations (some color), map, plans; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Working from the surviving material presented here with the help of superlative photographs, many specially taken for this book, John Lowden explains how and why Early Christian & Byzantine art was made and used. This is an accessible and authoritative book that will inspire anyone who is curious about the origins of Christian art.
- Series Statement
- Art & ideas
- Uniform Title
- Art & ideas.
- Alternative Title
- Early Christian and Byzantine art
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-440) and index.
- 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 Controversy -- Art after Iconoclasm. 5. Orthodoxy and Innovation: Byzantine Art c.860-c.960. 6. Sacred Spaces: Decorated Churches c.960-c.1100. 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. Later Roman and Byzantine Emperors.
- ISBN
- 0714831689
- 9780714831688
- OCLC
- ocm37249531
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries