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

Publication Info. New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (658 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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Note Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 23-July 4, 2004.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 608-641) and index.
Contents 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 Curcic -- 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 -- 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 -- "A la facon grece" : the encounter of Northern Renaissance artists with Byzantine icons / Maryan W. Ainsworth.
Note Exhibition title: Byzantium : faith and power (1261-1557).
Awards Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association, 2005.
Local Note Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Digital Collections Fulltext Titles (Customizable)
Subject Art, Byzantine -- Exhibitions.
Art, Byzantine.
Christian art and symbolism -- Byzantine Empire -- Exhibitions.
Christian art and symbolism.
Byzantine Empire.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Added Author Evans, Helen C.
Brooks, Sarah.
Carr, Annemarie Weyl.
Effenberger, Arne.
Durand, Jannic.
Lowden, John.
Woodfin, Warren T. (Warren Theriot), 1974-
Redford, Scott.
Thomas, Thelma K.
Derbes, Anne.
Neff, Amy.
Talbot, Alice-Mary Maffry.
Ćurčić, Slobodan.
Ballian, Anna, 1948-
Georgopoulou, Maria, 1961-
Nelson, Robert S., 1947-
Ainsworth, Maryan W.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN 1588391132 (hc ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
9781588391131 (hc ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1588391140 (paperback ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
9781588391148 (paperback ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
030010278X (Yale University Press)
9780300102789 (Yale University Press)