Byzantine Art : The New Spirituality
The icon is the most prominent expression of artistic endeavor in Byzantine art. While icons were often fashioned on wooden panels with paint, they were also rendered in marble, ivory, gemstones, metals and mosaics. The Virgin Mary, mother of ... [... more]
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Six Byzantine Portraits (Oxford University Press ...
 A collection of biographies, this book tells the story of six outstanding men--four of them acknowledged saints--who lived between the 9th and 16th centuries in East Europe and, by birth, profession, or personal circumstances, belonged simultaneously to ... [... more]
$69.00
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Understand Romanesque Art
Know that two things took place in wall painting and manuscript illumination: Forms became smoother and more fluent with a less aggressively patterned interpretation put on nature, and the interest in contemporary Byzantine art grew more intense. ... [... more]
eHow |
Byzantine Chain By Roxanne Failey
Flip the last two jump rings back so that they lie against the first two jump rings that you started with. Push the flipped jump ring forward and set two more jump rings in the #3 jump ring between #2. Note: You can buy your jump rings, or create ... [... more]
DIYnet |
Gladiolus, Byzantine
Seen beside old homesteads in the south, Byzantine gladiolus provides shocking jolts of bold color in the late spring. When naturalized in lawn areas, the upright, 1/2 inch wide grass-like foliage may be mowed in ... [... more]
NC State University Coop Extension |
Faux Byzantine Flowerpots
Cut the glass chips to the desired width, and then cut off any irregular edges to get little rectangular pieces. Brush glue on the pot and fill in the background with the chips in straight rows (use cutter to trim ... [... more]
Home and Garden Television |
Boot Purse, Byzantine Woven Chain, China Mosaic ...
Oklahoma's Robin Bartoletti reveals the process for a boot purse, and later, an altered doll embellishment. A Byzantine woven chain is Susan Midlarsky's project in Waltham, Mass. Eileen Haller makes a china mosaic planter in Marina Del Ray, ... [... more]
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Byzantine Bracelet
Susan Midlarsky from Waltham, Mass., is a talented jewelry maker and dedicated middle school teacher with a continued quest for knowledge. Once she even drove all the way to Ohio just to take private lessons from one ... [... more]
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Byzantine Style (Style and Civilization)
Excellent overview from the founding of the city Well-known Byzantine scholar gives us a concise one-volume treatment of a broad spectrum of life in the Byzantine Empire. Commerce, religion, military service, literature and art, town and country life, ... [... more]
$8.95
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Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture
A winged centaur with the spotted body of a leopard playing a lute; a naked man with an animal head; a goat-footed Pan; a four-bodied lion; sphinxes, and hippocamps. Few would associate these forms of art with the Byzantine era, a period dominated by ... [... more]
$49.50
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Art and Text in Byzantine Culture
Art and Text in Byzantine Culture explores the relationship between images and words, and examines the different types of interactions between pictures and texts in Byzantine art. Byzantium is the only major world power to have experienced political ... [... more]
$85.00
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A History of the Byzantine State and Society
This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and the first ever to cover both the Byzantine state and Byzantine society. It begins in a.d. 285, when the emperor Diocletian separated what became ... [... more]
$100.00
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