Byzantine Icons - The Faber Gallery of Oriental Art

Byzantine Icons - The Faber Gallery of Oriental Art

General Editor: Basil Gray, Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum.   Introduction by David Talbot Rice

Byzantine art comprises the body of artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire,[1] as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from the decline of western Rome and lasted until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453,[2] the start date of the Byzantine period is rather clearer in art history than in political history, if still imprecise. Many Eastern Orthodox states in Eastern Europe, as well as to some degree the Islamic states of the eastern Mediterranean, preserved many aspects of the empire's culture and art for centuries afterward.

Published by Faber and Faber Ltd, 1959

Softcover. Dustcover shows wear, but the interior is in good condition.