Robin Cormack: 3 books
by Robin Cormack
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and public...
Through the Looking Glass: Byzantium through British Eyes
Papers from the Twenty-Ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, King’s College, London, March 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The papers in this volume derive from the 29th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. This was held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies in the University of London in March 1995, in order to complement the British Museum exhibition 'Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture'....
Painting the Soul
Icons, Death Masks and Shrouds
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Painting the Soul is a beautifully illustrated study of the creation and development of the icon.
"This book is a firework display. It sets off scores of explosions which light up the sky over-arching our field, terrain that is normally traversed nose down and too mindful of the footsteps of our predecessors."—Burlington Magazine