Enamels, crowns, relics and icons: studies on luxury arts in Byzantium/

Main Author: Hetherington, Paul B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham: Ashgate, c2008
Series:Variorum collected studies series CS908
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Preface
  • Byzantine cloisonne 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 emaux 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 staurotheque at Esztergom
  • Byzantine enamels for a Russian prince: the book-cover of the Gospels of Mstislav
  • The enamels on a mitre from Linkoping 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, Genoa: the reliefs and the artist
  • The Byzantine enamels on the staurotheque from the treasury of the Prieure d'Oignies, now at Namur, (with excursus:pearls and their association with Byzantine enamels)
  • The Cross of Zavis 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.