Byzantium : treasures of Byzantine art and culture from British collections / edited by David Buckton
1994, First Edition. London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly bumped and nicked. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Item #448342
ISBN: 071410566X
Physical description; 240 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps ; 29 cm. Notes; Catalogue of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London, February-23 April 1995. Contents; Contributors -- Foreword -- Lenders -- Acknowledgements -- Maps. The conquests of Justinian I (527-65) -- Byzantium at the death of Basil II in 1025 -- Introduction. Byzantine coinage / Barrie Cook and Jonathan Williams -- Byzantine silver / Marlie Mundell Mango -- Byzantine weights / Christopher Entwhistle -- Byzantine sculpture / Rowena Loverance -- Byzantine textiles / Hero Granger-Taylor -- Byzantine lamps / Donald Bailey -- Byzantine enamel / David Buckton -- Byzantine manuscript illumination / John Lowden -- Byzantine icons / Robin Cormack -- Cretan icons / Maria Vassilaki -- The Emperor Constantine the Great (nos 1-6) -- Late antiquity and early Byzantium (nos 7-60) -- The Emperor Justinian (nos 61-135) -- Iconoclasm (nos 136-9) -- The middle Byzantine period (nos 140-90) -- The Crusades and Latin rule (nos 191-204) -- The late Byzantine period (nos 205-31) -- The fall of Constantinople (nos 232-7) -- Key to abbreviated references -- Glossary -- Coins appendix. Subjects; Art, Byzantine. Byzantine antiquities. British Museum collections. Byzantine coinage. Byzantine silver. Byzantine sculpture. Byzantine textiles. Byzantine manuscript illumination. Byzantine icons.
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