A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives ...
Al margen del poderío militar y la sorprendente expansión que provocaría el asombro de tantas generaciones, el Imperio Otomano se caracterizó por crear una ...
The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and ...
This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period ...
This is the catalogue of the exhibition organized by the Orientalist Museum, Doha. It surveys some of the Orientalists masterpieces dealing with several themes ...
Presenting the first formulation of a central subject, this volume challenges major assumptions long held by Western art historians and provides new ways of ...
Bizancio, el Imperio heredero del romano y defensor tenaz de la religión cristiana, desarrolló una civilización tan espléndida que acabó por ser irresistible para ...
This is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging survey of Ottoman Architecture ever produced. It extends to over 700 pages and is illustrated with over ...
This beautiful book allows the reader to appreciate the complexities and subtleties of Ottoman art and architecture as a whole, while simultaneously learning more ...
The book presents important research conducted by the scholar Rowland J. Mainstone. It's aim is to explain how Justinian's architects succeeded in creating a ...
The fifteenth-century architect Sinan (1489-1588) was a master mosque builder who employed perfect proportions to create astonishing lightness in architecture--especially in his gravity-defying cupolas. ...
