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ART - ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL ART
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| | Ancient & Medieval Art |  Beyond Babylon Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.
This volume discusses the extraordinary art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean. 2008 548 pp. Cloth ISBN: 9780300141436 ADD TO CART $75.00 |
|  Picturing the Bible The Earliest Christian Art
This beautifully illustrated book examines the emergence of Christian art in the third century A.D. Drawing on insights from recent discoveries, leading experts explore topics from Jewish art in the Greco-Roman period and the influence of Constantine, to the development of church decoration and illuminated Bibles. New color photographs of frescoes, marble sculpture, silver...
2007 328 pp. - Cloth ISBN: 9780300116830 $65.00 |
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 Pen and Parchment Drawing in the Middle Ages
Studying illustrations from nearly 50 rarely seen manuscripts dating from the 9th to the early 14th century, this volume is the first to examine in depth the achievements of medieval draftsmen. NEW 2009 200 pp. Cloth ISBN: 9780300148947 ADD TO CART $50.00 / $40.00 |
|  The Art of Illumination The Limbourg Brothers and the "Belles Heures" of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
An in-depth look at one of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages and the only manuscript executed in its entirety by the Limbourg brothers. NEW 2009 388 pp. - Cloth ISBN: 9780300136715 ADD TO CART $65.00 |
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 Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht
This volume––which documents 26 excavated stone-built tombs of the ancient Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty––features remains of reliefs and inscriptions that decorated the walls and demonstrates the astonishing variety of Middle Kingdom funeral architecture. Egyptian Expedition Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art NEW 2009 270 pp. Cloth ISBN: 9780300123449
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|  The Cave Church of Paul the Hermit At the Monastery of St. Paul in Egypt
This visually and intellectually exciting book chronicles the history of a series of devotional paintings in the Cave Church. It explores how the monastic community commissioned painting twice in the church in the 13th century, during one of the greatest eras of Coptic art, and how one of the monks painted it again in the 18th century, helping to inaugurate a Coptic ...
2008 416 pp. - Cloth ISBN: 9780300118476 ADD TO CART $75.00 / $60.00 |
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