A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Byzantine art, providing an introduction to the whole period and range of styles.

• Preface


• 1: Rome with a Christian Face? : Early Byzantine Art 330-527


• 2: In the Shadow of St Sophia: Byzantine Art in the Sixth Century and its Aftermath 527-680


• 3: The Definition of an Orthodox Christian Empire: Byzantine Art 680-843


• 4: Developments and Diversions in the Consolidated Empire: Middle Byzantine Art 843-1071


• 5: The New Spirituality of the Eleventh Century and the World of the Twelfth Century


• 6: Art in the Service of a Failing Society: Late Byzantine Art 1204-1453


• 7: Rethinking Byzantine Art: An Epilogue for the new second edition


• Notes


• Timeline


• Glossary


• Further Reading


• Museums and Websites


• List of Illustrations


• Index

Robin Cormack is Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He is author of Writing in Gold: Byzantine Society and its Icons (1985), The Byzantine Eye: Collected Studies in Art and Patronage (1989), Painting the Soul: Icons, Death Masks, Shrouds (1997), and Icons (2007, 2014).
He co-operated in the production of the film A Window to Heaven (Getty Foundation and Metropolitan Museum of Program for Art on Film, 1990), and was the Royal Academy consultant for the exhibitions From Byzantine to El Greco (1987), The Art of Holy Russia: Icons from Moscow 1400-1660 (1998), and Byzantium 330-1453 (2008-9).