Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN: 1588394573 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 354
Book Description
This magnificent volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. At the beginning of the 7th century, the Empire's southern provinces, the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, were at the crossroads of exchanges reaching from Spain to China. These regions experienced historic upheavals when their Christian and Jewish communities encountered the emerging Islamic world, and by the 9th century, an unprecedented cross- fertilization of cultures had taken place. This extraordinary age is brought vividly to life in insightful contributions by leading international scholars, accompanied by sumptuous illustrations of the period's most notable arts and artifacts. Resplendent images of authority, religion, and trade—embodied in precious metals, brilliant textiles, fine ivories, elaborate mosaics, manuscripts, and icons, many of them never before published— highlight the dynamic dialogue between the rich array of Byzantine styles and the newly forming Islamic aesthetic. With its masterful exploration of two centuries that would shape the emerging medieval world, this illuminating publication provides a unique interpretation of a period that still resonates today.
Author: Philipp Niewöhner Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110690527 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 434
Book Description
Architectural sculpture and liturgical furniture are key genres of late antique and Byzantine archaeology and art, and this book provides the first general overview. It offers two alternative ways of access, via technical terms and illustrations. It can thus serve as dictionary, if a term requires explanation and illustration, or as a visual gazetteer for the research of artefacts. In addition the volume can also serve as an academic textbook.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004532455 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
The volume exposes the modus operandi of Wilhelm Bode’s strategic involvement in the art market and the formation and dissolution of public and private collections, showcasing his complex agency within the art marketplace of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author: Aliza Steinberg Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1789693225 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 385
Book Description
This book, copiously illustrated throughout, studies the garments and their accessories worn by some 245 figures represented on approximately 41 mosaic floors (some only partially preserved) that once decorated both public and private structures within the historical-geographical area of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004431047 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 596
Book Description
On the basis of extensive archival research, the essays in this volume examine the minutiae of object transaction in the late nineteenth-century art market within its social network and broader historical context.
Author: Staatliche Museen (Berlin). Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst Publisher: ISBN: 9783791341507 Category : Languages : en Pages : 95
Author: Lynn Catterson Publisher: Studies in the History of Coll ISBN: 9789004419902 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 572
Book Description
Forming a collection -- Transacting an entire collection -- Dealers for dealers -- (No longer) obscure agents -- Issues of attribution.
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Author: Philipp Niewöhner
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Author: Aliza Steinberg
Author: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). Antikensammlung
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Author: Staatliche Museen (Berlin). Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst
Author: Lynn Catterson
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library