Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. Softcover. VG/G+, cover corners slightly curled; spine is bumped top/bottom. Pages clean and tight.. Illustrated glossy wraps. xxii, 658 pages : illustrations (some color). Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Mar. 23-July 4, 2004./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 608-641) and index.
Featuring work from the last golden age of the Byzantine Empire, this volume charts the exceptional secular & religious creations of the late 13th through mid 16th centuries. Works that had a profound influence on Eastern Christian, Islamic & Renaissance cultures. A sequel to the landmark catalogue the Glory of Byzantium, this spectacular book-the first to focus exclusively on the last golden age of the Byzantine empire-presents magnificent secular and religious works in all media.
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 ur i --; 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 /; John Lowden --; 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 --; "À la façon grèce" : the encounter of northern Renaissance artists with Byzantine icons /; Maryan W. Ainsworth.