Login
Not a CAA member?
Read about the benefits.

Early Christian/Byzantine Art

Martina Bagnoli, 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)

Exhibition schedule: Cleveland Museum of Art, October 17, 2010–January 27, 2011; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, February 13–May 15, 2011; British Museum, London, June 23–October 9, 2011

Thumbnail
November 23, 2011
Thomas F. X. Noble
Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 496 pp. Cloth $65.00 (9780812241419)
Thumbnail
November 17, 2011
Ann Marie Yasin
Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 360 pp.; 82 b/w ills. Cloth $99.00 (9780521767835)
Thumbnail
May 12, 2011
Stefano Carboni, 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)

Exhibition schedule: Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, October 2, 2006–February 18, 2007; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 27–July 8, 2007

Thumbnail
March 26, 2008
Jeffrey Spier
Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art
Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with Kimbell Art Museum, 2007. 328 pp.; 251 color ills.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300116830)

Exhibition schedule: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, November 18, 2007–March 30, 2008

Thumbnail
March 12, 2008
Dorothy M. Shepard
"Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797" Symposium. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. April 22, 2007
College Art Association, 2006
Thumbnail
September 12, 2007
Peter Barnet 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)

Exhibition schedule: The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, July 12–October 15, 2006

Thumbnail
August 30, 2007
Anne-Orange Poilpré
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)
Thumbnail
August 29, 2007
Robert S. Nelson 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)

Exhibition schedule: J. Paul Getty Museum, November 14, 2006–March 4, 2007

Thumbnail
August 2, 2007
Eunice Dauterman Maguire 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)
Thumbnail
April 11, 2007
Sarah Bassett
The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 314 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (052182723X)
Thumbnail
December 3, 2006
Christopher de Hamel
The Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts
London: British Library, 2004. 74 pp.; 32 color ills. Cloth $40.00 (0712348972)
Thumbnail
October 24, 2006
Meyer Shapiro
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)
Thumbnail
October 10, 2006
Maurice Cerasi, 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)
Thumbnail
September 11, 2006
James Billington, 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

Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 16, 2005–January 11, 2006

Thumbnail
May 30, 2006
Maria Fabricius Hansen
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)
Thumbnail
August 23, 2004
Anne Rudloff Stanton
The Queen Mary Psalter: A Study of Affect and Audience
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2001. 287 pp.; 6 color ills.; 101 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (0871699168)
Thumbnail
April 20, 2004
Jane Hawkes
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)
Thumbnail
March 24, 2004
Catherine E. Karkov 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)
Thumbnail
January 20, 2004
Alessandro Bagnoli
Duccio: At the Origins of Sienese Painting
Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2002. 539 pp.; 300 ills. €48.00 (8882154831)

Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, and Cathedral Crypt, Siena, Italy, October 4, 2003–January 11, 2004

Thumbnail
December 11, 2003
Ioli Kalavrezou
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)

Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 25, 2002–April 27, 2003

Thumbnail
September 30, 2003
Gillian Mackie
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)
Thumbnail
September 18, 2003
Madeline H. Caviness
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)
Thumbnail
August 29, 2003
Charles Barber
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)
Thumbnail
May 29, 2003
Glenn Peers
Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 250 pp.; 19 b/w ills. Cloth $37.50 (0520224051)
Thumbnail
October 2, 2002
Yuri Piatnitsky, 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)

Exhibition Schedule: State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 19-September 18, 2000

Thumbnail
August 1, 2002
Maria Vassilaki, ed.
Mother of God: Representations of the Virgin in Byzantine Art
Exh. cat. Athens: Benaki Museum, 1999. 531 pp.; 226 color ills. (8881187388)
Thumbnail
Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, October 20, 2000-January 20, 2001
January 24, 2002
Henry Maguire
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)
Thumbnail
January 8, 2002
Elizabeth Valdez Del Alamo and Carol Stamatis Pendergast, eds.
Memory and the Medieval Tomb
Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999. 317 pp.; 93 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (0754600769)
Thumbnail
September 5, 2001
John Crook
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)
Thumbnail
May 28, 2001
Robert Ousterhout
Master Builders of Byzantium
Princeton University Press, 1998. 318 pp.; 209 b/w ills. Cloth $67.50 (0691005354)
Thumbnail
January 18, 2001
Georgia Frank
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)
Thumbnail
December 15, 2000
Kurt Weitzmann and Massimo Bernabo
The Byzantine Octateuchs
Princeton University Press, 1998. 880 pp.; 23 color ills.; 1,552 b/w ills. Cloth $295.00 (0691007225)
September 6, 2000
George Henderson
Vision and Image in Early Christian England
Cambridge University Press, 1998. $90.00 (0521551307)
Missing Reviewer
March 7, 2000
Colum Hourihane, 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)
Thumbnail
February 8, 2000
Sharon E.J. Gerstel
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)
Thumbnail
January 5, 2000
Natalia B. Teteriatnikov
Mosaics of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul: The Fossati Restoration and the Work of the Byzantine Institute
Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1997. 73 pp. Paper $15.00 (0884022641)
June 25, 1999
Reindeer Company
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
May 13, 1999
Carolyn L. Connor
The Color of Ivory: Polychromy on Byzantine Ivories
Princeton University Press, 1997. 16 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Cloth $79.50 (0691048185)
Thumbnail
October 1, 1998