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Item Number: 107665
Title: Byzantium : From Antiquity to the Renaissance
Author: Mathews, Thomas F
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ISBN: 9780300167665
Description: New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. 24cm., pbk., 176pp., 122 illus., most in color. Reprint of 1998 edition. Summary: 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.

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