Art of the Byzantine era / David Talbot Rice.

By:

Rice, David Talbot, 1903-1972

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The world of artPublication details: New York : Thames and Hudson, 1993, c1963.Description: 286 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cmISBN:

0500200041

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

709.0214 RIC

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.0214 RIC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Available		39002000129438

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For the people of Byzantium, their architectural works, frescoes, mosaics, ivories, chalices, bejeweled gospel covers and many other opulent works of art were the material proof of their greatness and power over the Mediterranean states.

The vast range of these riches is illustrated in this complete account of Byzantine art from the reign of Justinian to the fall of Constantinople.

David Talbot Rice, one of the greatest authorities on Byzantine art, traveled as far afield as the rock churches of Cappadocia and Cilicia, the tufa monuments of Armenia and Georgia, and the thirteenth-century ceramic factories of Bulgaria, now buried in the alluvial mud of the Danube. His book is a masterly survey of an art of magnificence and power that belonged to a great and sophisticated society.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-268) and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

David Talbot Rice was Lecturer on Byzantine and Near-Eastern Art at the Courtauld Institute, London, and then Watson-Gordon Professor of Fine Art at Edinburgh University. His books included Islamic Art (1965, rev 1975), published in the World of Art, The Art of Byzantium (1959) and The Byzantines (1962).