Byzantine Art in the Making
Main Lines of Stylistic Development in Mediterranean Art, 3rd-7th Century
Ernst Kitzinger
Harvard University Press, 1977
This book spans a half millennium which witnessed a radical transformation of the Western world. Kitzinger discerns a series of dominant stylistic trends in the many works of pictorial art he examines, from mosaics to decorative sculptures, and makes sense of the dialectic of their sequence and interaction.
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