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Byzantine & Eastern Christian Art

Studies in Byzantine & Medieval Western Art

by John Beckwith

24 x 17 cm 382 pp. 337 illus.
£130.00
Publication: 1989
ISBN 0 907132 48 0
Buckram Bound

This volume bring together John Beckwith's papers on medieval and Byzantine art. They focus on those subjects which the author made his own, Coptic and Byzantine "textiles, Western European and Constantinopolitan ivory carving, and Byzantine metalwork. A final section includes a number of studies on cultural diffusion, from Islam and Byzantium to Western Europe, in the early Middle Ages.

Contents

Preface
Coptic Textiles
Byzantine Tissues
The Andrews Diptych
The Werden Casket Reconsidered
A Late Ottonian Ivory Carving
Caskets from Cordoba: A Rediscovered Italo-Byzantine Carving in Ivory
A Byzantine Ivory Statuette of the Hodegetria
Problemes posées par certaines sculptures sur ivoires du haut moyen age
Some Early Byzantine Rock Crystals
A Byzantine Crystal and a Little Gold
Another Late Sixth-century Byzantine Rock Crystal
A Byzantine Gold and Enamelled Pectoral Cross
An Early Christian Bronze Lamp
Byzantine Influences at the Court of Charlemagne
The Influence of Islamic Art on Western Medieval Art
Islamic Influences on Beatus Apocalypse Manuscripts
Index