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Early Christian and Byzantine art

Title
Early Christian and Byzantine art / John Beckwith.
Author
Beckwith, John, 1918-1991
Publication
Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 1979.

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Description
405 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Series Statement
The Pelican history of art
Uniform Title
Pelican history of art
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • book jackets.
  • Paper (fibre product) boards (binding components)
  • Typefaces.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 376-377.
Contents
Prologue -- Early Christian art : Rome and the legacy of the Caesars -- Early Christian art : the Eastern provinces of the Empire and the foundation of Constantinople -- Early Christian art : the synthesis of the secular and the religious image -- The age of Justinian -- The forsaken West and the emergence of the Supreme Pontiff -- The troubled East -- The triumph of orthodoxy -- The scholar Emperor and the triumph of the imperial ideal -- Metropolitan authority -- Metropolitan diffusion and decline -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 0140561331
  • 9780140561333
  • 0140560335
  • 9780140560336
  • 0300052952
  • 9780300052954
  • 0300052960
  • 9780300052961
LCCN
79011228
OCLC
  • ocm04774770
  • 4774770
  • SCSB-633428
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library