History of Art: Byzantine & Medieval Art c 500 CE to c 1400

The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audien...

The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the foc...

The rebirth of realistic representation in Italy around 1300 led to the materialization of a pictorial language, which dominated Western art until ...

This book is an outcome of the British archaeological association conference on Medieval Art, architecture and archaeology in the city and its vici...

In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today simply as the Small La...

This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of ways to represen...

In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today simply as the Small La...

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...

This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted gateways of churches in the nort...

Relations between Byzantium and its neighbours are the focus of this volume. The papers address questions of cultural exchange, with special attent...

Tabbaas Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the oft...

Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely uniform in its ...

Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal th...

Ohne Ornament, so schreibt Leon Battista Alberti in seinem für die Architekturtheorie der Neuzeit grundlegenden Traktat über die Baukunst, könn...

Essays on the chronology and interpretation of the Byzantine mosaics of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki contains the finest collection of surviving Byza...