Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium
Subtitle: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs) (Birmingham Byzantine ... Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780754635758
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Religious Buildings; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History: World; Ayasofya Muzesi (Museum : Tra; History; Turkey; Byzantine Empire; Europe; Medieval, 500-1500; Art and state; Ancient - General; Architecture, Byzantine; Christian art and symbolism; Trabzon
First sentence: The church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond (plates I, II) was built and decorated in the reign of the emperor Manuel I Grand Komnenos (1238-63).