Main entry:

Beckwith, John, 1918-1991, author.

Title & Author:

Early Christian and Byzantine art / John Beckwith.

Edition:

Second edition.

Publication:

Harmondsworth, England ; New York : Penguin Books, 1979.

Description:

405 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Series:

The Pelican history of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-377) and index.
Prologue -- Early Christian art : Rome and the legacy of the Caesars -- Early Christian art : the Eastern provinces of the Empire and the foundation of Constantinople -- Early Christian art : the synthesis of the secular and the religious image -- The age of Justinian -- The forsaken West and the emergence of the Supreme Pontiff -- The troubled East -- The triumph of orthodoxy -- The scholar Emperor and the triumph of the imperial ideal -- Metropolitan authority -- Metropolitan diffusion and decline -- Epilogue.

Summary:

"The appreciation of early Christian and Byzantine Art as a sublime expression of religious thought and feeling is a comparatively modern phenomenon. Byzantine art is both static and dynamic: static in the sense that once an image was established it was felt that no improvement was necessary; dynamic in the sense that there was never one style and these styles or modes were constantly changing. The story is not only complex in its unravelling but ranges widely over various media: mosaic, wall painting and painted panels, sculpture in marble and ivory, manuscript illumination, gold, silver, and precious stones, jewellery, silk, and rich vestments. This enthralling account by a gifted medieval art-historian should remain a standard work for many years to come." -- Back cover

ISBN:

0140561331
9780140561333
0140560335
9780140560336
0300052952
9780300052954
0300052960
9780300052961

Subject:

Art, Early Christian.
Art, Byzantine.
Christian art and symbolism.
Art paléochrétien.
Art byzantin.
Christliche Kunst
Frühchristentum
Kunst
Byzantinisches Reich
Römisches Reich

Form/genre:

book jackets.
Paper (fibre product) boards (binding components)
Typefaces.

Added entries:

Pelican history of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 183076
Call No.: PO1754; ID:85-B6398
Status: Available