Byzantine art / Robin Cormack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cormack, Robin.

Series:

Oxford history of art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Byzantine.

Physical Description:

vii, 248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Rome with a Christian Face?: Early Byzantine Art 330-527 1

Chapter 2 In the Shadow of St Sophia: Byzantine Art in the Sixth Century and its Aftermath 527-680 37

Chapter 3 The Definition of an Orthodox Christian Empire: Byzantine Art 680-843 75

Chapter 4 Developments and Diversions in the Consolidated Empire: Middle Byzantine Art 843-1071 105

Chapter 5 The New Spirituality of the Eleventh Century and the World of the Twelfth Century 145

Chapter 6 Art in the Service of a Failing Society: Late Byzantine Art 1204-1453 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index.

ISBN:

0192842110

OCLC:

43729117