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Medieval Art The Glory of Byzantium Middle & Near Eastern Art
Byzantium
Faith and Power
(1261–1557)
Helen C. Evans et al.
During the last centuries of the “Empire
of the Romans,” Byzantine artists created
exceptional secular and religious works
that had an enduring influence on art
and culture.
This spectacular book presents hundreds
of objects in all media from the late
thirteenth through mid-sixteenth
centuries. Featured in full-color
reproductions are sacred icons,
luxuriously embroidered silk textiles,
richly gilded metalwork, miniature icons
of glass, precious metals and gemstone,
and elaborately decorated manuscripts.
In the accompanying text, renowned
scholars discuss the art and investigate
the cultural and historical interaction
between these major cultures—the
Christian and Islamic East and the
Latin West.
This book is the catalogue for an
exhibition at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art (March 23 to
July 4, 2004).
2004 650 pp. 150 b/w + 600 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 10278-x $75.00
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Saint Catherine’s
New Monastery, Sinai,
Egypt
New
A Photographic Essay
Text by Helen C. Evans; photographs by
Bruce White; with a special introduction by His
Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai, Abbot of
the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine
The Holy Monastery of St. Catherine,
situated among the mountains of the
Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, is the oldest
continuously active monastery in the
world. Recorded as a Christian
pilgrimage site as early as the fourth
century, it is located where Moses is
thought to have seen the Burning
Bush and to have received the Ten
Commandments.
In this beautiful and informative book,
the isolated Monastery and its buildings
are presented in many newly
commissioned color images that include
the richly decorated sanctuary of the
sixth-century church and the world’s
most outstanding collection of icons.
Along with an introduction by His
Eminence Archbishop Damianos and
an essay on the Monastery by Helen
C. Evans, the book offers powerful
photographs of the site—some of which
are provided from the Monastery’s
archives—with the descriptive captions
written by the monks of the Monastery.
Published in collaboration with The Monastery
of St. Catherine at Sinai
2004 96 pp. 10 b/w + 100 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 10279-8 $25.00
Art and Culture of the Middle
Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261
Edited by Helen C. Evans and
William D. Wixom
1997 604 pp. 125 b/w + 542 color illus.
Paper ISBN 08616-4 $50.00
Perceptions of Byzantium
and Its Neighbors (843–1261)
Edited by Olenka Z. Pevny
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art Symposia
2000 212 pp. 125 b/w illus.
Paper ISBN 08929-5 $40.00
Treasures of a Lost Art
Italian Manuscript Painting of the
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Pia Palladino
This book presents one of the finest
private collections of Italian manuscripts
assembled after the First World War.
Included are works by the major schools
of illumination in southern Italy,
Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia, Lombardy,
and the Veneto.
2003 204 pp. 65 b/w + 104 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 09879-0 $50.00
A Walk Through
the Cloisters
Revised Edition
Bonnie Young
1989 144 pp. 36 b/w + 93 color illus.
Paper ISBN 08561-3 $14.95
Mirror of the
Medieval World
Edited by William D. Wixom
1999 292 pp. 325 b/w + 110 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 08638-5 $29.95
The Cesnola
Collection:
Terracottas
CD-ROM
Vassos Karageorghis, Gloria S. Merker,
and Joan R. Mertens
This CD-ROM—the first of a projected
multi-part digital series on the Cesnola
Collection—focuses on its terracottas:
424 pieces that date from about 2000
B.C. to the 2nd century A.D. Each object
is accompanied by a catalogue entry
with description, bibliography, and
illustration. There are also fifteen
commentaries and a glossary,
chronology, and maps. Inexpensive,
portable, and user-friendly, this
CD-ROM introduces the colorful
world of ancient life and mythology
to an interested public and provides
an invaluable tool to students and
archaeologists.
2004 425 color illus.
CD-ROM ISBN 10284-4 $45.00
Ancient Art from Cyprus
The Cesnola Collection in The
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Vassos Karageorghis
2000 320 pp. 19 b/w + 304 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 08677-6 $19.95
Glass of the Sultans
New
Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse
2001 340 pp. 100 b/w + 176 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 08851-5 $65.00
Nomadic Art of the
Eastern European Steppes
The Eugene V. Thaw and Other
New York Collections
Emma C. Bunker, with James C.Y. Watt
and Zhixin Sun
2002 248 pp. 65 b/w + 175 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 09688-7 $45.00
Art of the First Cities
The Third Millennium B.C.. from
the Mediterranean to the Indus
Edited by Joan Aruz
“A fine summation for scholars and
curious lovers of art and urbanism.”
—Publishers Weekly
This handsomely illustrated book
highlights one of the most important
and creative periods in the history of art:
a time marked by the appearance of the
city states of the Sumerians, the citadel of
Troy, the splendid royal tombs at Ur,
and the monumental cities at Mohenjodaro
and Harappa.
2003 564 pp. 177 b/w + 535 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 09883-9 $75.00
The Golden Deer
of Eurasia
Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures
from the Russian Steppes
Edited by Joan Aruz, Ann Farkas,
Andrei Alekseev, and Elena Korolkova
2000 320 pp. 55 b/w + 280 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 08510-9 $35.00
The Legacy of
Genghis Khan
Courtly Art and Culture in
Western Asia, 1256—1353
Edited by Linda Komaroff and
Stefano Carboni
This splendid volume presents in full
color some two hundred extraordinary
works—manuscript paintings and
illuminations, ceramic tiles, metalwork,
textiles, and more.
2002 336 pp. 80 b/w + 200 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 09691-7 $60.00
The Minbar from the
Kutubiyya Mosque
Jonathan M. Bloom and
Ahmed Toufiq et al.
1998 124 pp. 28 b/w + 80 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 08637-7 $40.00
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