This volume gathers together seventeen articles published over the last thirty years, one appearing here for the first time. Their focus is primarily on enamel - the brilliant and colourful art form for which the Byzantines were famous throughout the medieval world - but sculpture and glyptics also figure.The author examines not only works which ha

Paul Hetherington is an independent scholar, specialising in the study of Byzantine art.

Contents: Preface; Byzantine cloisonné enamel: production, survival and loss; Enamels in the Byzantine world: ownership and distribution; The jewels from the crown: symbol and substance in the later Byzantine imperial regalia; La couronne grecque de la sainte couronne de Hongrie: le contexte de ses émaux et de ses bijoux; Byzantine and Russian enamels in the treasury of Hagia Sophia in the late 14th century; Byzantine enamels on a Venetian book cover; A purchase of Byzantine relics and reliquaries in 14th-century Venice; Vecchi, e non antichi: differing responses to Byzantine culture in 15th-century Tuscany; Studying the Byzantine staurothèque at Esztergom; Byzantine enamels for a Russian prince: the book-cover of the Gospels of Mstislav; The enamels on a mitre from Linköping cathedral, and art in 13th-century Constantinople; Who is this king of glory? The Byzantine enamels of an icon frame and revetment in Jerusalem; The gold and enamel triptych of Constantine proedros; The frame of the Sacro Volto icon in S. Bartolomeo degli Armeni in Genoa: the reliefs and the artist; The Byzantine enamels on the staurothèque from the treasury of the Prieuré d'Oignies, now at Namur, (with excursus:pearls and their assiciation with Byzantine enamels); The Cross of ZáviÅ¡ and its Byzantine enamels: a contribution to its history; Byzantine steatites in the possession of the Knights of Rhodes; A well-head in Iznik: an example of Laskarid taste?; Addenda; Index.