"The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions ever mounted at …
Wonderful things: Byzantium through its art-papers from the 42nd Sp…
by Eastmond, Antony, James, Liz, Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Londres, Angleterre), Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Grande-Bretagne)
fromPublications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine …
Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public monuments in Constantinople and of the Church of the Holy Apostles. In the opening section of the work, Constantine describes columns and sculptures within the city, seven of which he calls 'wonders'. In the seco…