Title & Author:

Byzantium : faith and power (1261-1557) / edited by Helen C. Evans.

Publication:

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
©2004

Description:

xxii, 658 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 23-July 4, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 608-641) and index.
Byzantium : faith and power (1261-1557) / Helen C. Evans -- Revival and decline : voices from the Byzantine capital / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Religious settings of the Late Byzantine sphere / Slobodan Ćurčić -- Sculpture and the Late Byzantine tomb / Sarah Brooks -- Liturgical implements / Anna Ballian -- Images : expressions of faith and power / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- Images of personal devotion : miniature mosaic and steatite icons / Arne Effenberger -- Precious-metal icon revetments / Jannic Durand -- Manuscript illumination in Byzantium, 1261-1557 / John Lowden -- Liturgical textiles / Warren Woodfin -- Icon as a ladder of divine ascent in form and color / His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai, Pharan, and Raitho, Abbot of the holy Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt -- Byzantium and the Islamic world, 1261-1557 / Scott Redford -- Arts of Christian communities in the Medieval Middle East / Thelma K. Thomas -- Italy, the Mendicant orders, and the Byzantine sphere / Anne Derbes and Amy Neff -- Venice and the Byzantine sphere / Maria Georgopoulou -- Byzantium and the rebirth of art and learning in Italy and France / Robert S. Nelson -- "À la façon grèce" : the encounter of northern Renaissance artists with Byzantine icons / Maryan W. Ainsworth.
George Wittenborn Award, Winner (2004).
College Art Association Alfred H. Barr Jr. Book Award, Winner (2005).

Summary:

Featuring work from the last golden age of the Byzantine Empire, this volume charts the exceptional secular & religious creations of the late 13th through mid 16th centuries. Works that had a profound influence on Eastern Christian, Islamic & Renaissance cultures. A sequel to the landmark catalogue the Glory of Byzantium, this spectacular book-the first to focus exclusively on the last golden age of the Byzantine empire-presents magnificent secular and religious works in all media.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

1588391132 (hardcover)
9781588391131 (hardcover)
1588391140 (pbk.)
9781588391148 (pbk.)
030010278X (Yale University Press)
9780300102789 (Yale University Press)

Subject:

Art, Byzantine Exhibitions.
Christian art and symbolism Byzantine Empire Exhibitions.
Art byzantin Expositions.
Art chrétien Empire byzantin Expositions.
Symbolisme chrétien Empire byzantin Expositions.
Art, Byzantine.
Christian art and symbolism.
Macht
Kunst
Kirche
Byzantijnse kunst.
Christelijke kunst.
Iconen (schilderkunst)
Byzantine Empire.
Byzantinisches Reich
Byzanz
New York <NY, 2004>
Art, Byzantine - Exhibitions.
Christian art and symbolism - Byzantine Empire - Exhibitions.
Byzantine Art 1260-1560.
Byzantine Architecture 1080-1560.
Religious art Byzantine Empire 1080-1560.
Religious symbolism Byzantine Empire 1080-1560.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Evans, Helen C., editor.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231664
Call No.: N6250 .B962 2004
Status: Available