"The Levant: Crossroads of Late Antiquity. History, Religion, and Archaeology / Le Levant: Carrefour de l'Antiquité tardive explores the monumental, religious, and social developments that took place in the Roman province of Syria during the 3rd through 6th centuries CE. Ellen B…
The awe-inspiring mosaics covering the walls, vaults, and domes of Byzantine churches of the medieval period still remain a mystery to modern viewers. Saints and Spectacle ventures into the world of ninth- and tenth-century Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, to…
"Die Mosaiken Ravennas gehören zu den bedeutendsten Kunstwerken der Welt. Ihre Qualität und ihre Farbenpracht faszinieren seit ihrer Entstehung zwischen dem 5. und dem 7. Jh. Dieses Buch stellt die Frage nach der Bedeutung dieser Bilder, ihren Eigenarten und den Botschaften, die…
Built on the southwestern coast of Cyprus in the second century A.D., the House of Dionysos is full of clues to a distant life - wine jars discovered in the corner of a portico, shards of pottery, a clutch of Roman coins found on a skeleton under a fallen wall - yet none is so e…
