Title: Byzantium :
Authors: Buckton, David.; Buckton, David,; British Museum.
Date: 1994
Publisher: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press,
Physical description: 240 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, facsims. ; 29 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: N
Contents: Contributors -- Foreword -- Lenders -- Acknowledgements -- Maps. The conquests of Justinian I (527-65) -- Byzantium at the death of Basil II in 1025 -- Introduction. Byzantine coinage / Barrie Cook and Jonathan Williams -- Byzantine silver / Marlie Mundell Mango -- Byzantine weights / Christopher Entwhistle -- Byzantine sculpture / Rowena Loverance -- Byzantine textiles / Hero Granger-Taylor -- Byzantine lamps / Donald Bailey -- Byzantine enamel / David Buckton -- Byzantine manuscript illumination / John Lowden -- Byzantine icons / Robin Cormack -- Cretan icons / Maria Vassilaki -- The Emperor Constantine the Great (nos 1-6) -- Late antiquity and early Byzantium (nos 7-60) -- The Emperor Justinian (nos 61-135) -- Iconoclasm (nos 136-9) -- The middle Byzantine period (nos 140-90) -- The Crusades and Latin rule (nos 191-204) -- The late Byzantine period (nos 205-31) -- The fall of Constantinople (nos 232-7) -- Key to abbreviated references -- Glossary -- Coins appendix.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition of Byzantine art held at the British Museum.
Subject headings (LCSH): Art, Byzantine--Exhibitions; Art, Byzantine--Great Britain--Exhibitions.; Byzantine antiquities--Exhibitions.; Icon painting--Byzantine influences--Exhibitions.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine--Exhibitions.