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Early Christian/Byzantine Art

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

Antonova, Clemena. Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon: Seeing the World with the Eyes of God. Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 206 pp.; 19 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754667988)

Bagnoli, Alessandro. Duccio: At the Origins of Sienese Painting. Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2002. 539 pp.; 300 ills. €48.00 (8882154831)

Bagnoli, Martina, Holger A. Klein, C. Griffith Mann, and James Robinson, eds. Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe. Exh. cat. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2010. 278 pp.; 300 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300168273)

Barber, Charles. Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm. Princeton University Press, 2001. 208 pp.; 38 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (0691091773)

Barcham, William, and Catherine Puglisi, eds. Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese. Exh. cat. London and New York: D Giles Limited and Museum of Biblical Art, 2011. 176 pp.; 93 color ills.; 6 b/w ills.; 99 ills. Cloth $45.00 (9781904832829)

Barnet, Peter, and Pete Dandridge. Lions, Dragons, & Other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages, Vessels for Church and Table. Exh. cat. New York: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture in association with Yale University Press, 2006. 256 pp.; 100 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (0300116845)

Bassett, Sarah. The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 314 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (052182723X)

Berger, Robert W. Public Access to Art in Paris: A Documentary History from the Middle Ages to 1800. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 311 pp.; 65 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (027101749x)

Billington, James, Lidia Iovleva, and Robert Rosenblum. Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2004. 426 pp.; 300 color ills. Cloth

Boele, Vincent, Yuri Piatnitsky, and Vera Zalesskaya. Pilgrim Treasures from the Hermitage: Byzantium-Jerusalem. Aldershot, UK: Lund Humphries in association with Hermitage Amsterdam, 2005. 128 pp.; 82 color ills. Cloth (0853319391)

Bouras, Laskarina, and Maria Parani. Lighting in Early Byzantium. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2009. 118 pp.; 81 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780884023173)

Bowes, Kim. Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 376 pp.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780521885935)

Brodbeck, Sulamith. Les saints de la Cathédrale de Monreale en Sicile: Iconographie, hagiographie et pouvoir royal à la fin du XIIe siècle. Collection de l'École française de Rome, vol. 432. Rome: École française de Rome, 2011. 772 pp.; Many color ills.; Few b/w ills. Paper €77.00 (9782728308644)

Brooks, Sarah T., ed. Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557): Perspectives on Late Byzantine Art and Culture; The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia. Metropolitan Museum of Art Series. New Haven and New York: Yale University Press and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. 216 pp.; 122 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780300111415)

Brubaker, Leslie. Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Centuru Byzantium: Image as exegesis in the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus. Cambridge University Press, 1998. 489 pp.; 177 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (0521621534)

Bukdahl, Else Marie. The Islamic Golden Age in Spain: Architecture and Science in Cordoba and Granada. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2006. 80 pp.; 34 color ills. Paper €11.00 (8779450520)

Burke, John, ed. Byzantine Narrative: Papers in Honour of Roger Scott.. Melbourne: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 2005. 650 pp.; 59 color ills.; 46 b/w ills. Paper (1876503246)

Bynum, Caroline Walker. Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2011. 432 pp.; 50 ills. Paper $32.95 (9781935408109)

Carboni, Stefano, ed. Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797. Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. 375 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300124309)

Carder, James N. A Home of the Humanities: The Collecting and Patronage of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. Dumbarton Oaks Collection, vol. 1. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011. 177 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780884023654)

Carruthers, Mary. The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200. Cambridge University Press, 1996. 416 pp.; 31 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (0521582326)

Caviness, Madeline H. Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle and Scopic Economy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 208 pp.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (0812235991)

Cerasi, Maurice, Emiliano Bugatti, and d’Agostiono Sabrina. The Istanbul Divanyolu: A Case Study in Ottoman Urbanity and Architecture. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2003. 154 pp.; 8 color ills.; 89 b/w ills. Paper $62.50 (3899133706)

Company, Reindeer. The Art Historian, 2 Vols., ("Ancient to Medieval" and "Renaissance to Modern and Non-Western"). The Reindeer Company, 1997. 600 ills. CD-ROM $40.00

Connor, Carolyn L. The Color of Ivory: Polychromy on Byzantine Ivories. Princeton University Press, 1997. 16 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Cloth $79.50 (0691048185)

Cormack, Robin. Icons. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. 144 pp.; 100 color ills. Cloth $22.95 (9780674026193)

Crook, John. The Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West: c. 300–c. 1200. Oxford University Press, 1999. 308 pp.; 111 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (0198207948)

Cuadriello, Jaime. The Glories of the Republic of Tlaxcala: Art and Life in Viceregal Mexico. Trans. Christopher J. Follett. Austin: University of Texas, 2011. 400 pp.; 12 color ills.; 77 b/w ills.; 89 ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780292723603)

de Hamel, Christopher. The Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts. London: British Library, 2004. 74 pp.; 32 color ills. Cloth $40.00 (0712348972)

Dodds, Jerrilynn D., María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale. The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 416 pp.; 200 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780300106091)

Duffy, John, A. R. Littlewood, and Tomas Hägg. Dumbarton Oaks Papers Number 53: Aesthetics and Presentation in Byzantine Literature, Art, and Music. Dumbarton Oaks, 1998. 358 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth $110.00 (0884022730)

Entwistle, Chris, and Nöel Adams, eds. Intelligible Beauty: Recent Research on Byzantine Jewellery. London: British Museum in association with David Brown Book Company, 2010. 300 ills. Paper $90.00 (9780861591787)

Feigenbaum, Gail, and Sybille Ebert-Schiffer, eds. Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art 1500–1900. Issues and Debates. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2011. 288 pp.; 86 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (9781606060421)

Fleischer, Jens, John Lund, and Marjatta Nielsen, eds. Late Antiquity: Art in Context. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000. 285 pp. Paper $55.00 (8772896396)

Folda, Jaroslav. Crusader Art: The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1099–1291. Aldershot, U.K.: Lund Humphries, 2009. 176 pp.; 90 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780853319955)

Fossier, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, II, 950-1250. Cambridge University Press, 1996. 544 pp.; 28 color ills.; many b/w ills.; 20 ills. Cloth (0521266459)

Frank, Georgia. The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 232 pp. Cloth $40.00 (0520222059)

Franzé, Barbara. La Pierre et L'Image: L'église de Saint-Chef-en-Dauphiné. Paris: Picard, 2011. 279 pp.; 18 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper €45.00 (9782708408777)

Freely, John, and Ahmet S. Çakmak. Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 342 pp.; 51 color ills.; 163 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9780521772570)

Gerstel, S. E. J., and R. S. Nelson, eds. Approaching the Holy Mountain: Art and Liturgy at St Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai. Turnhout, BE: Brepols Publishers, 2011. 608 pp.; 24 color ills.; 188 b/w ills. Cloth €130.00 (9782503531274)

Gerstel, Sharon E.J. Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Sanctuary. University of Washington Press in association with College Art Association, 1998. 214 pp.; 5 color ills.; 90 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (0295978007)

Goldberg, Vicki, and David Finn, eds. Nude Sculpture 5,000 Years. Harry N. Abrams, 1999. 208 pp.; 193 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (0810933462)

Gombrich, Ernst. The Story of Art: Pocket Edition. New York: Phaidon, 2006. 1064 pp.; 335 color ills.; 56 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0714847038)

Gordon, Dillian. The Italian Paintings Before 1400. National Gallery Catalogues. London: National Gallery Company, 2011. 566 pp.; 500 color ills. Cloth $125.00 (9781857094824)

Grossman, Peter, and Hans-Georg Severin. Frühchristliche und Byzantinische Bauten im Südöstlichen Lykien. Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 2002. 180 pp.; 143 b/w ills. Cloth (380301767X)

Hahn, Cynthia. Objects of Devotion and Desire: Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. New York: Hunter College of The City University of New York, 2011. 88 pp.; Many color ills. Paper (1885998899)

Hall, Marcia B. The Sacred Image in the Age of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 352 pp.; 200 color ills.; 30 b/w ills.; 230 ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300169676)

Hamling, Tara. Decorating the 'Godly' Household: Religious Art in Post-Reformation Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 256 pp.; 40 color ills.; 80 b/w ills.; 120 ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300164947)

Hansen, Maria Fabricius. The Eloquence of Appropriation: Prolegomena to an Understanding of Spolia in Early Christian Rome. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2003. 368 pp.; 20 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Paper €105.00 (8882652378)

Harbison, Peter. The Golden Age of Irish Art: The Medieval Achievement, 600-1200. Thames and Hudson, 1997. 368 pp.; 77 color ills.; 171 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (0500019274)

Hawkes, Jane. The Sandbach Crosses: Sign and Symbolism in Anglo-Saxon Sculpture. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. 200 pp.; 1 color ills.; 119 b/w ills. Cloth €55.00 (1851826599)

Henderson, George. Vision and Image in Early Christian England. Cambridge University Press, 1998. $90.00 (0521551307)

Hennessey, Cecily. Images of Children in Byzantium. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009. 296 pp.; 16 color ills.; 57 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754656319)

Hiscock, Nigel. The Symbol at Your Door: Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 442 pp.; 191 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754663003)

Hourihane, Colum, ed. Byzantine Art: Recent Studies. Princeton: Index of Christian Art, Princeton University in association with Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. 224 pp.; 146 ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780866984263)

Hourihane, Colum, ed. From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Period and Its European Context. Princeton University Press, 2000. 376 pp.; some b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (069108825x)

Hourihane, Colum, ed. Image and Belief: Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art. Princeton University Press, 1998. 342 pp.; 4 color ills.; 175 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0691010021)

Hourihane, Colum. Virtue & Vice: The Personifications in the Indez of Christian Art. Princeton University Press, 1999. 456 pp.; some b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (0691050376)

Hurwit, Jeff. The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 384 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (0521428343)

James, Liz, ed. Art and Text in Byzantine Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 230 pp.; few color ills.; few b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (0521834090)

Kalavrezou, Ioli. Byzantine Women and Their World. Exh. cat. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Art Museums, 2002. 272 pp.; 150 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (0300096984)

Karkov, Catherine E., and Fred Orton, eds. Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2001. 240 pp.; 4 color ills.; 34 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0937058793)

Kaspersen, Søren, and Erik Thunø. Decorating the Lord's Table: On the Dynamics Between Image and Altar in the Middle Ages. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005. 172 pp.; some color ills.; some b/w ills. (8763501333)

Kazhdan, Alexander P. Dumbarton Oaks Papers, No. 32. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1998. 342 pp. Cloth $95.00

Kessler, Herbert L., and David Nirenberg, eds. Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 472 pp.; 110 color ills. Cloth $69.95 (9780812242850)

Kirin, Asen, ed. Sacred Art, Secular Context: Objects of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., Accompanied by American Paintings from the Collection of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. Athens, Ga.: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2004. 192 pp.; 23 color ills.; 29 b/w ills. Paper (0915977575)

Kotzabassi, Sofia, and Nancy Patterson Sevcenko. Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Nineteenth Century: A Descriptive Catalogue. Princeton University Press, 2010. 544 pp.; 250 color ills.; 29 b/w ills. Cloth $195.00 (9780691143873)

Leskov, A.M. The Maikop Treasure. and Philadelphia: 2008. 304 pp.; 316 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9781934536049)

Loverance, Rowena. Christian Art. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. 248 pp.; 125 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0674024796)

Lyster, William, ed. The Cave Church of Paul the Hermit: At the Monastery of St. Paul, Egypt. Cairo: American Research Center in Egypt, 2008. 416 pp.; 250 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300118476)

Mackie, Gillian. Early Christian Chapels in the West: Decoration, Function, and Patronage. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 512 pp.; 114 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (0802035043)

Magdalino, Paul, and Robert S. Nelson, eds. The Old Testament in Byzantium. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. 348 pp.; 37 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780884023487)

Maguire, Henry. The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. 222 pp.; 167 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (0691050074)

Maguire, Henry. Image and Imagination in Byzantine Art. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. 368 pp.; 241 b/w ills. Cloth $149.95 (0754659070 )

Maguire, Eunice Dauterman, and Henry Maguire. Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 232 pp.; 8 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $58.00 (0691125643)

Maria, Vassilaki, ed. Images of the Mother of God: Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. 416 pp.; 28 color ills.; 168 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (0754636038)

Mathews, Thomas F. Byzantium: From Antiquity to the Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 16 color ills.; 106 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (9780300167665)

Meyer, Mati. An Obscure Portrait: Imaging Women's Reality in Byzantine Art. London: Pindar Press, 2010. 432 pp.; 258 ills. Cloth £150.00 (1904597327)

Miles, Margaret R. A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350–1750. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2007. 178 pp.; 12 color ills.; 28 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780520253483)

Mormando, Francesco, and Thomas Worcester, eds. Piety and Plague: From Byzantium to the Baroque. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2007. 344 pp.; few b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9781931112734)

Nasrallah, Laura Salah. Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 350 pp.; 31 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780521766524)

Nelson, Robert S., and Kristen M. Collins. Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Mount Sinai. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications, 2006. 320 pp.; 236 color ills.; 36 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0892368551)

Noble, Thomas F. X. Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 496 pp. Cloth $65.00 (9780812241419)

Ousterhout, Robert. A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia. Dumbarton Oaks, 2004. 500 pp.; 198 color ills.; 271 b/w ills. Cloth

Ousterhout, Robert. Master Builders of Byzantium. Princeton University Press, 1998. 318 pp.; 209 b/w ills. Cloth $67.50 (0691005354)

Ousterhout, Robert. Master Builders of Byzantium. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2008. 320 pp.; 209 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9781934536032)

Pagoulatos, Gerasimos P. Tracing the Bridegroom in Dura: The Bridal Initiation Service of the Dura-Europos Christian Baptistery as Early Evidence of the Use of Images in Christian and Byzantine Worship. Pistcataway, NJ: Tigris, 2012. 187 pp.; 37 ills. Paper $77.50 (9781593337384)

Peers, Glenn. Sacred Shock: Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. 208 pp.; 79 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (0271024704)

Peers, Glenn. Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 250 pp.; 19 b/w ills. Cloth $37.50 (0520224051)

Pentcheva, Bissera V. Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. 312 pp.; 20 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth (0271025514)

Pentcheva, Bissera V. The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. 320 pp.; 72 color ills.; 19 b/w ills. Cloth $84.95 (9780271035840)

Peoschke, Joachim. Italian Mosaics: 300 - 1300. New York: Abbeville Press, 2010. 360 color ills. Cloth $150.00 (9780789210760)

Pevny, Olenka Z., ed. Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors. Yale University Press, 2000. 212 pp.; 125 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (0300089295)

Piatnitsky, Yuri, Oriana Baddeley, and Earleen Brunner, eds. Sinai, Byzantium, Russia: Orthodox Art from the Sixth to the Twentieth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press in association with Saint Catherine Foundation, London, 2000. 456 pp.; 550 color ills. Cloth $100.00 (0295980273)

Poilpré, Anne-Orange. Maiestas Domini: Une image de l’Église en Occident (Ve - IXe siècles). Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2005. 304 pp.; 4 color ills.; 26 b/w ills. Paper (220407571X)

Raguin, Virginia C., and Dina Bangdel, eds. Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2011. 356 pp.; 362 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781932476477)

Ramsay, William M., and Gertrude L. Bell. The Thousand and One Churches. Eds. Robert G. Ousterhout and Mark P. C. Jackon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2008. 628 pp. Cloth $49.95 (9781934536056)

Ross, Marvin C. Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Vol. II: Jewelry, Enamels, and Art of the Migration Period.. Dumbarton Oaks, 2004. 274 pp.; 13 color ills.; 166 b/w ills. Cloth (088402301X)

Schildgen, Brenda Deen. Heritage or Heresy: Preservation and Destruction of Religious Art and Architecture in Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 288 pp.; Few b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780230603295)

Shapiro, Meyer. The Language of Forms: Lectures on Insular Manuscript Art. Intro. Jane E. Rosenthal. New York: The Morgan Library and Museum, 2004. 212 pp.; 43 color ills.; 134 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (0875981402)