
Название: Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond - Antony Eastmond
Автор: Antony Eastmond
Издательство: Ashgate
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 246
Размер: 20 MB
Язык: English
The church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond, built by the emperor Manuel I Grand Komnenos (1238-63) in the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade, is the finest surviving Byzantine imperial monument of its period. Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium is the first investigation of the church in more than thirty years, and is extensively illustrated in colour and black-and-white, with many images that have never previously been published. Antony Eastmond examines the architectural, sculptural and painted decorations of the church, placing them in the context of contemporary developments elsewhere in the Byzantine world, in Seljuq Anatolia and among the Caucasian neighbours of Trebizond.