Byzantine Art and Architecture
Subtitle: An Introduction
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780521357241
Subjects: Byzantine art; BCE to c 500 CE; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; History - General; Art, Byzantine; Architecture; Art; History - Medieval; General; History - Ancient & Classical; Architecture / General; Art, Byzantine Art, Byzantine; Art-History - Ancient & Classical; Art-History - Medieval; Architecture, Byzantine
First sentence: 'Metamorphosis' is the term often used for the process by which the pagan Roman empire became the Christian Byzantine empire - an appropriate term because the change came about through the modification of existing traditions to new purposes.