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The road to Byzantium : luxury arts of antiquity

Title
The road to Byzantium : luxury arts of antiquity / [editors, Frank Althaus and Mark Sutcliffe].
Publication
London : Fontanka, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Althaus, Frank.
  • Sutcliffe, Mark.
  • Somerset House (London, England)
  • Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
  • Courtauld Institute of Art.
Description
191 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 31 cm
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Note
  • "Published to coincide with The road to Byzantium: luxury arts of antiquity, an exhibition held in the Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House, London, from 30 March to 6 September 2006, and jointly organised by the State Hermitage Museum and the Courtauld Institute of Art"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-186) and index.
Contents
The road to Byzantium / Robin Cormack -- The beauty of the human body in Ancient Greek vase-painting / Anna Petrakova -- Greco-Scythian antiques : a history of excavation in Southern Russia / Andrei Alekseyev -- Classicism in the Roman portrait : the ages of Augustus and Hadrian / Anna Trofimova -- The classical heritage in Byzantine art / Vera Zalesskaya -- Silver in changing contexts / Marlia Mundell Mango -- Classicism and Paideia in early Byzantine silver from the Hermitage / Ruth Leader-Newby --Ancient classicism in retrospect / Antony Eastmond and Peter Stewart.
ISBN
  • 0954309553 (hbk.)
  • 0954309561 (pbk)
LCCN
9780954309558
OCLC
  • ocm63186512
  • SCSB-5285424
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries