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Through a Glass Brightly : Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology ; presented to David Buckton by Chris Entwistle; Peter Lasko; Donald M. Bailey; Catherine Johns; Silke Ackermann; Ja Elsner; Nol Adams; Paul Williamson; Liz James; Maria Vassilaki; Marlia M. Mango; Ken Dark; Paul Hetherington; Christopher Walter; John W. Nesbitt; Jeffrey Spier; Leslie Brubaker; Ian C. Freestone; Colleen P. Stapleton; Valery Rigby; Susan Youngs; Fritze Lindahl; John Cherry; Barrie Singleton; Paul Corby Finney; Anthony Cutler; Judy Rudoe; Hugh Tait is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for over twenty years the curator of the British Museum's Early Christian and Byzantine collections and the National Icon Collection. Table of Contents Bibliography for David Buckton Preface ( Peter Lasko ) 1. A dandy the Ambleteuse clepsydra, Empedocles, and wine-thieves I have known ( Donald M. Bailey ) 2. Hellenistic to Late Roman ( Catherine Johns ) 3. Light on Byzantium - a universal sundial at the British Museum ( Silke Ackermann ) 4. Visualising women in Late Antique the Projecta casket ( Jas Elsner ) 5. Sources of cloisonne some early fused gold and glass inlays ( Noel Adams ) 6. On the date of the Symmachi panel and the so-called Grado Chair ivories ( Paul Williamson ) 7. Who's that girl? Personifications of the Byzantine empress ( Liz Ja
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- Author
- Chris Entwistle; Peter Lasko; Donald M. Bailey; Catherine Johns; Silke Ackermann; Ja Elsner; Nol Adams; Paul Williamson; Liz James; Maria Vassilaki; Marlia M. Mango; Ken Dark; Paul Hetherington; Christopher Walter; John W. Nesbitt; Jeffrey Spier; Leslie Brubaker; Ian C. Freestone; Colleen P. Stapleton; Valery Rigby; Susan Youngs; Fritze Lindahl; John Cherry; Barrie Singleton; Paul Corby Finney; Anthony Cutler; Judy Rudoe; Hugh Tait
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books; David Brown Book Co.
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781785702518
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Art