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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This magnificent publication the catalogue of a landmark exhibition at the Royal Academy of the extraordinary artistic and cultural riches of Constantinople and its empire illustrates and records some 320 Byzantine treasures drawn from monasteries museums and institutions worldwide. At the height of its power Byzantium extended throughout much of southern Europe the Balkans Anatolia and the Middle East. Authoritative texts by nearly 100 leading scholars trace the history and cultural development of more than a thousand years of Byzantine art and spectacular illustrations of artefacts – from icons wall paintings mosaics manuscripts to ivories metalwork and items of jewellery – reveal the distinct style and character of Byzantine art and its influence on the European and Islamic traditions. (OS)