Heaven & earth

Heaven & earth

by Albani, Jenny Chalkia, Eugenia Drandaki, Anastasia Papanikola-Bakirtzē, Dēmētra Tourta, A.

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"In 330 Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Italy some thousand miles to the east, near the site of the ancient Greek city of Byzantium on the Bosphorus Strait linking the Aegean and Black Seas. Renamed Constantinople (now Istanbul), the city became the largest and wealthiest in the Christian world. It remained the dominant power, especially in the eastern Mediterranean, for more than 1,000 years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. In the first-ever …

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  • Full title :Heaven & earth.

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"In 330 Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Italy some thousand miles to the east, near the site of the ancient Greek city of Byzantium on the Bosphorus Strait linking the Aegean and Black Seas. Renamed Constantinople (now Istanbul), the city became the largest and wealthiest in the Christian world. It remained the dominant power, especially in the eastern Mediterranean, for more than 1,000 years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. In the first-ever exhibition of Byzantine art at the Gallery, some 170 works of art, many never before lent to the United States, will be on view—among them mosaics, icons, manuscripts, jewelry, and ceramics. The works include newly discovered and unpublished objects and reveal the rich and multifaceted culture of Byzantium. Divided into five thematic sections, the exhibition explores the coexistence of paganism and Christianity, spiritual life in Byzantium, secular works of art used in the home, the intellectual life of Byzantine scholars, and the cross-influences that occurred between Byzantine and Western artists before the fall of Byzantium."

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  • Publication Date:2013-2014 (v. 1, 2014)

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"1" and "2" printed on spine of each volume.

ISBN for set from paperback case.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, October 6, 2013-March 2, 2014 and at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, April 9-August 25, 2014.

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  • Description:2 volumes : : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; : 33 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789604761555, 9604761552, 9789604761319, 9604761315, 9789604761333, 9604761331, 9789604761364, 9604761366, 9789604761302, 9604761307, 9789604761326, 9604761323
  • oclc:ocn858611987
  • LC Classification:N6250

Table of Contents

1. Art of Byzantium from Greek collections / edited by Anastasia Drandaki, Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi, Anastasia Tourta -- 2. Cities and countryside in Byzantine Greece / edited by Jenny Albani and Eugenia Chalkia.

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Subjects

Art Art -- Exhibitions. -- Greece Art -- Expositions. -- Grèce Art byzantin -- Expositions Art, Byzantine Art, Byzantine -- Exhibitions Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire -- Exhibitions. -- Civ… Catalogues d'exposition Christian art and symbolism Christian art and symbolism -- Exhibiti… Christianisme et art -- Expositions. --… Christianity and art -- Exhibitions -- … Christianity and art -- Orthodox Easter… Cities and towns, Medieval Cities and towns, Medieval -- Exhibitio… Cities and towns, Medieval -- Exhibitio… Cities and towns, Medieval -- Greece Civilization Civilization -- Byzantine influences

Writers

Albani, Jenny Chalkia, Eugenia Drandaki, Anastasia Papanikola-Bakirtzē, Dēmētra Tourta, A.

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