Byzantium Rediscovered

By J.B. Bullen

Book Overview

This book is the first to investigate a fascinating and important yet relatively unfamiliar subject: the revival of interest in the Byzantine style of architecture and decoration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Byzantine Revival was always a minority cult that attracted outsiders, visionaries and extremists, and Barrie Bullen's original and scholarly narrative tells a vivid and entertaining story of the colourful figures in Germany, Austria, France, Britain and America who rediscovered Byzantium and reinterpreted its style to promote widely differing aims.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714846384
• ISBN13: 9780714846385
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.8" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary