From Constantine the Great to Kandinsky by Elisabeth Piltz, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Contents: Chapter l. The raison detre of the research on Byzantium (The abstract image in Late antiquity and Byzantium the New Rome - the Renaissances); Chapter 2. Byzantine architecture I (A synthesis of Late antique and Oriental influences - the transformation of the Christian basilica - Constantinople the Queen of Cities - the Sacred palace - House churches and Martyria - Imperial basilicas - Palaces); Chapter 3. Byzantine architecture II (The Exarchate of Ravenna - the development on Sicily in Bulgaria in Serbia Cappadocia Armenia and Georgia); Chapter 4. Byzantine sculpture (Statues reliefs ivory plates steatites); Chapter 5. Mosaics and mural painting (Pearl hosiery and artistic handicraft); Chapter 6. The manuscript illuminations (From rotulus to codex - luxurious manuscripts as gifts and liturgical mass production); Chapter 7. The painting on the Balkans and in Scandinavia; Chapter 8. Rus (Kiev a new Constantinople - Moscow the Third Rome the New Jerusalem); Chapter 9. Iconology (The world as icon - the Iconoclasm and the attitude of the Popes); Chapter 10. Byzantium and the Periphery (Postbyzantine art - Greece Bulgaria Serbia Romania Russia - the Manuels of painting - the Abstract art and the 20th century). | From Constantine the Great to Kandinsky by Elisabeth Piltz, Paperback | Indigo Chapters