Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

Byzantine Art (Oxford History of Art) - Picture 1 of 1

Byzantine Art by Robin Cormack (Paperback, 2000)

plsshipfast (10472)

98.4% positive Feedback

Price:

£26.84

Free postage

Estimated delivery Fri, 30 May - Sat, 7 Jun

Returns:

30 days return. Buyer pays for return postage. If you use an eBay delivery label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.

Condition:

New

Product Description : Mostly religious in function but preserving the classicism of GrecoRoman art Byzantine buildings and art objects communicate the purity and certainties of the public face of early Christian art Focusing on the art of Constantinople between 330 and 1453 this book probes the underlying motives and attitudes of the society which produced such rich and delicate art forms It examines the stages this art went through as the city progressed from being the Christian center of the Eastern Roman Empire to its crisis during attack from the new religion of Islam to its revived medieval splendor and then after the Latin capture of 1204 and the Byzantine reoccupation after 1261 to its arrival at a period of cultural reconciliation with East and West

About this product

Product Information

Byzantine is a much misused word. The book explores what kind of an art is to be described as Byzantine. Mostly religious in function, but preserving the classicism of Greco-Roman art, the buildings and objects communicate the purity and certainties of the public face of early Christian art. The book probes the underlying motives and attitudes of the society which produced such rich and delicate art forms.