From Constantine the Great to Kandinsky: Studies in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art and Architecture

Contents: Chapter l. The raison &dacute;être of the research on Byzantium (The abstract image in Late antiquity and Byzantium the New Rome - the Renaissances); Chapter 2. Byzantine architecture I (A synthesis of Late antique and Oriental influences - the transformation of the Christian basilica - Constantinople the Queen of Cities - the Sacred palace - House churches and Martyria - Imperial basilicas - Palaces); Chapter 3. Byzantine architecture II (The Exarchate of Ravenna - the developmen...