Search Results: European / 3. Medieval / Byzantine from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Florence and Istanbul: Casa Editrice Bonechi; NET Turistik Yayinlar, 1993. 157 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Guidebook.

Florence and Istanbul: Casa Editrice Bonechi; NET Turistik Yayinlar, 1993. 157 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Cocked spine/lean. Age toning. Another copy available. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Good. 4to. Guidebook.

Tielt and Brussels: Lannoo Publishers; Europalia Arts Festival, 2016. 239 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, plans; 28 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, October 7, 2015 to January 17, 2016. With contributions by Belgin Demirsar-Arli, Frederic Hitzel, Ine Jacobs, Rene Lebrun, Marcel Otte, Mehmet Ozdogan, Asli Ozyar, Kadir Pektas R.R.R. Smith, Mehmet Baha Tanman, Peter Van Deun, Marc Waelkens. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "'Anatolia: Home of Eternity' is the catalogue that accompanies the main exhibition at Europalia Arts Festival, Turkey. It looks at the heart of Turkish culture and illustrates masterpieces brought together from museums from all over Turkey. Turkish culture is characterised by rituals and religion. On the basis of about 200 objects - archaeological finds, miniatures, sculptures, textile, items in gold,… Read More

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001. Cloth, xi, 312 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Drawing on a wealth of sources from ancient lapidary inscriptions to medieval historiographies and travel books, this book takes readers to archaeological sites, to see artefacts, and to visit some of the artisans who have created Armenian culture. More than 60 colour and 200 black and white photographs are illustrated in it." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Origins. In the beginning, by Hamlet Petrosyan; Symbols of Armenian identity. The world as a garden; The sacred mountain; The temple; Writing and the book; The khachkar or cross-stone, by Hamlet Petrosyan; Settlements, dwellings, and inhabitants. Home as the world, by Harutyun Marutyan; Artifacts and artisans. Wood,… Read More

Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1966. 120 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 24 cm. Exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and others. Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, 1966-1968. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: The art of Anatolia until ca. 1200 B.C., by Machteld Mellink; Early Iron Age, Classical and Roman Empire, by Rodney S. Young; The Byzantine Period, by Paul Underwood; The Islamic Period, by Richard Ettinghausen.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Florence: Casa Editrice Bonechi, 1994. 170 pages, colour illustrations, colour maps; 29 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps sunned at extremities, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Guidebook.

Florence: Casa Editrice Bonechi, 1997. 170 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. English Edition. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Guidebook.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. xxii, 148 pages, [36] leaves of plates, illustrations; 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "In this interdisciplinary study, Henry Maguire examines the influence of several literary genres and rhetorical techniques on the art of narration in Byzantium. He reveals the important and wide-reaching influence of literature on the visual arts. In particular, he shows that the literary embellishments of the sermons and hymns of the church nourished the imaginations of artists, and fundamentally affected the iconography, style, and arrangement of their work. Using provocative material previously unfamiliar to art historians, he concentrates on religious art from A.D. 843 to 1453. Professor Maguire first considers the Byzantine view of the link between oratory and painting, and then the nature of rhetoric and its relationship to Christian literature. He demonstrates how four rhetorical genres and devices-description,… Read More

Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1994. xvii, 451 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 28 cm. Technical entries by Lawrence Becker, et al. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: 1. Jewelry; 2. Domestic Art; 3. Coins; 4. Works of Doubtful Authenticity; Appendices.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1969. Cloth, 263 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 23 cm. Panorama of World Art Series. Translated from the German. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar book cover. "The high points are undoubtedly the glittering mosaics of Ravenna and the soaring architecture of Constantinople's Hagia Sophia; but the true artistic wealth of Byzantium becomes ever more apparent when one considers the abundance and variety of the less well-known treasures included among the reproductions." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Art of the early Christian church; Constantine and Theodosius: Christian art in Italy; Justinian and Ravenna; Justinian and Byzantium; The Macedonian renaissance and Byzantine classicism; The spread of Byzantine art in the West; Late Byzantine art; The spread of Byzantine art in the East: Serbia, Macedonia, and Romania; Russian art.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Venezia; Venice: Storti Edizioni, 1996. 79 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Guidebook.

Athens: Ekdotike Athenon S. A., 1975. 48 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio. Guidebook.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. xii, 175 pages, [134] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. This is probably the best introduction to Byzantine Art. Includes an excellent summary of the iconoclastic/iconodule controversy.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York and Washington D.C.: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Cloth, xiv, 415 pages, 64 plates, illustrations, facsimiles, maps; 25 cm. Topstained red. History of Civilization Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls; History of Painting Ser., 1965. Cloth, 207 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 28 cm. First published, 1965, under title: Peinture byzantine et russe. Translated from the French. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. An attractive copy.. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. vii, 248 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Mostly religious in function, but preserving the classicism of Greco-Roman art, Byzantine buildings and art objects communicate the purity and certainties of the public face of early Christian art. Focusing on the art of Constantinople between 330 and 1453, this book probes the underlying motives and attitudes of the society which produced such rich and delicate art forms. It examines the stages this art went through as the city progressed from being the Christian center of the Eastern Roman Empire, to its crisis during attack from the new religion of Islam, to its revived medieval splendor and then, after the Latin capture of 1204 and the Byzantine reoccupation after 1261, to its arrival at a period of cultural reconciliation with east and west. / Robin Cormack is Professor in the History of Art in the University of London, and Deputy Director of the Courtauld… Read More

London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2003. 240 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. The revival of the art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire. CONTENTS: Foreword; Introduction; 1 Bavaria, Prussia and Austria; 2 France; 3 Britain; 4 America; Notes; Index.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York and New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2012. Pictorial boards, xvii, 332 pages, colour illustrations, colour map; 31 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th-9th century), held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, March 14 to July 8, 2012. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This magnificent volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. At the beginning of the 7th century, the Empire's southern provinces, the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, were at the crossroads of exchanges reaching from Spain to China. These regions experienced historic upheavals when their Christian and Jewish communities encountered the emerging Islamic world, and… Read More

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1998. 176 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Maps. The Byzantine Empire. Early Byzantine and Medieval Constantinople. Introduction. Three Phases.1. The Imperial City of Constantinople. Constantine's City. The Classical Heritage of the City. Justinian's City. The Period of Crisis. Medieval Constantinople. The Decline of Constantinople.2. Icons. Pagan Origins. Sixth-century Icons. Icons in Church. Iconoclasm and the Theology of Icons. The Restoration of Icons. Icons in Public. The Mother of God.3. The Secular Domestic World. The Palaces of Constantinople. The Fashions of Palace Life. Country Life.4. A Temple of Transformation. Early Byzantine Churches. Medieval Byzantine Church Design. The Medieval Decorative System. Christ in the Dome. The Selected Narrative. The Sanctuary. The Narthex.5. A Cosmopolitan Art. Art and Diplomacy. Italy. Palaiologan Art. The… Read More

Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1978. Cloth, 187 pages, colour illustrations; 33 cm. Translated from the German. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio. Collectible.