For more than a thousand years, until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire, the Christian successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, stretched across large areas of Europe,North Africa and the Near East. Under successive emperors, the artists, architects and craftsmen of Byzantium (Constantinople, modern Istanbul) worked within a long-established tradition to produce superb buildings and art works of great expressive power. Churches were planned around a central,domed space, and their walls covered in mosaics showing mysterious, stylized figures set against a shimmering gold background.
Foreword
introduction
Chapter 1 : Bavaria, Prussia and Austria
Goethe and the Boisseree Brothers
Ludwig I of Bavaria
Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia
Ludwig II of Bavaria and Richard Wagner
Austria
Chapter 2 : France
Rewriting French Architectural History
Byzantine Art and the Church
Sainte-Marie-Majeure, Marseilles
Hippolyte Flandrin and Dominique Papety
Byzantine and Romanesque in French Architectural Writing
The Decoration of the Pantheon
The Building of the Sacre-Coeur
Gautier, Moreau, Huysmans and Sardou
Maurice Denis and the Iconic Mode in Paintincl
Chapter 3: Britain
Early Nineteenth-Century Responses to Byzantine Architecture
Byzantium and the History of Art
Oxford, Cambridge and a New Architectural History
British Travellers in Byzantine Italy
Ruskin and Byzantine Venice
Responses to Ruskin
The Byzantine Court at the Crystal Palace
George Gilbert Scott and Secular Byzantine
Salviati and the Mosaic Revival
The Decoration of St Paul's Cathedral
Butterfield, Burne-Jones and Byzantium
Some Early Neo-Byzantine Churches
The Arts and Crafts Movement
W.R. Lethaby and Byzantine Scholarship
Bentley and Westminster Cathedral
Bloomsbury and its Critics
Chapter 4： North America
Henry Hobhouse Richardson
Ralph Adams Cram
Louis Comfort Tiffany
John Singer Sargent
North America at the Turn of the Century
Bertram Goodhue
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements