Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)

Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)
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658
ISBN
 
1588391132:1588391140:030010278X
Издатель
 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press
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Разное

Содержание:

Блаженной памяти подвижник, Из Халкидонской пустыни и из Рима, Из Вифлеемского монастыря

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The publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition "Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)", held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 23 through July 4, 2004. The fall of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople to the Latin West in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade abruptly interrupted nearly nine hundred years of artistic and cultural traditions. In 1261, however, the Byzantine general Michael VIII Palaiologos triumphantly re-entered Constantinople and reclaimed the seat of the empire, initiating a resurgence of art and culture that would continue for nearly three hundred years, not only in the waning empire itself but also among rival Eastern Christian nations eager to assume its legacy. Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), and the groundbreaking exhibition that it accompanies, explores the artistic and cultural flowering of the last centuries of the "Empire of the Romans" and its enduring heritage. Conceived as the third of a trio of...

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