d i s c o v e r y of b y z a n t i u m
Lot. 8160
Starting Price: 240 €
Miller G.: “L ancient art Serbe,les Eglises “.Paris 1919 First edition .Folio 32x25cm,contemporary publishers paper covers, complete 208p.and 249 illustrations (many full page and photographs),as called for, text clean and bright ,overall in very good condition. A Luxurious publication richly illustrated with 249 numbered illustrations ( photographs ,diagrams ,architectural plans et)c, for the Byzantine Art and Churches in Serbia (including all actual northern Macedonia, then a Serbian territory).Miller was a famous Byzantine Art Historian and this is the first scientific presentation of the Byzantine monuments of Northern Macedonia and Serbia ,important provinces for the Byzantine Art. Some of the very first painting scenes of the Byzantine early Renaissance are found in this publication .A landmark for the discovery and understanding of the provincial Byzantine Art .Rare
Lot. 8161
Starting Price: 260 €
Henri P.: “Les eglises de la Moldavie du nord ,des origins a la fin du 16eme siècle,monuments de l art Byzantin.Text et Album “.Paris 1930 First edition. Big Folio 39x29cm,two volumes complete ,Volume I text:313p.[12] and three huge folded plates ,Volume II Album: 67 full page Folio plates depicting photographs of churches and paintings ,clean and bright, partially unopened. Still the basic reference study for the Byzantine art in Moldavia .Although Romania s lands were never inside the Byzantine border, this Orthodox country followed close the Byzantine art .From the early years to the 16th century this exhaustive scientific study ,very richly illustrated ,is a detailed picture of the flourishing Byzantine art outside the concrete borders of the Empire. Rare R a r e M a p s , B o o k s , Pr i n t s , P h oto g r a p h y & D o c u m e n t s
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