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Author : Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman
Release : 1892
Genre : Byzantine Empire
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Book Synopsis The Byzantine Empire by : Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman
Download or read book The Byzantine Empire written by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman. This book was released on 1892. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Oman
Release : 1892
Genre : Byzantine Empire
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Author : Robin Cormack
Release : 2018-02-27
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Byzantine Art by : Robin Cormack
Download or read book Byzantine Art written by Robin Cormack. This book was released on 2018-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and public buildings. This complete introduction to the whole period and range of Byzantine art combines immense breadth with interesting historical detail. Robin Cormack overturns the myth that Byzantine art remained constant from the inauguration of Constantinople, its artistic centre, in the year 330 until the fall of the city to the Ottomans in 1453. He shows how the many political and religious upheavals of this period produced a wide range of styles and developments in art. This updated, colour edition includes new discoveries, a revised bibliography, and, in a new epilogue, a rethinking of Byzantine Art for the present day.
Author : Charles Oman
Release : 1892
Genre : Byzantine Empire
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Book Synopsis The Story of the Byzantine Empire by : Charles Oman
Download or read book The Story of the Byzantine Empire written by Charles Oman. This book was released on 1892. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antony Eastmond
Release : 2017-03-02
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium by : Antony Eastmond
Download or read book Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium written by Antony Eastmond. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond, built by the emperor Manuel I Grand Komnenos (1238-63) in the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade, is the finest surviving Byzantine imperial monument of its period. Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium is the first investigation of the church in more than thirty years, and is extensively illustrated in colour and black-and-white, with many images that have never previously been published. Antony Eastmond examines the architectural, sculptural and painted decorations of the church, placing them in the context of contemporary developments elsewhere in the Byzantine world, in Seljuq Anatolia and among the Caucasian neighbours of Trebizond. Knowledge of this area has been transformed in the last twenty years, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The new evidence that has emerged enables a radically different interpretation of the church to be reached, and raises questions of cultural interchange on the borders of the Christian and Muslim worlds of eastern Anatolia, the Caucasus and Persia. This study uses the church and its decoration to examine questions of Byzantine identity and imperial ideology in the thirteenth century. This is central to any understanding of the period, as the fall of Constantinople in 1204 divided the Byzantine empire and forced the successor states in Nicaea, Epiros and Trebizond to redefine their concepts of empire in exile. Art is here exploited as significant historical evidence for the nature of imperial power in a contested empire. It is suggested that imperial identity was determined as much by craftsmen and expectations of imperial power as by the emperor's decree; and that this was a credible alternative Byzantine identity to that developed in the empire of Nicaea.
