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Through a Glass Brightly: Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton
For about a quarter century, Buckton served as an Assistant Keeper in the British Museum and focused on the Early Christian and Byzantine collections. Colleagues and other admirers offer 25 essays to his honor. They consider such topics as body-chains from Hellenistic to Late Roman, visualizing women in Late Antique Rome through the Projecta casket, early Byzantine mercantile communities in the west, Saint Theodore and the Dragon, the Bristol Psalter, two enameled mounts from the Celtic fringe, design and invention in Gothic architecture as expressed at Mildenhall and Ely, and a Venetian goblet made for the Paris Exhibition of 1878 with gold leaf medallions of Early Christian martyrs. There are 16 pages of color plates, but no index. Distributed by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Through a Glass Brightly: Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton
For about a quarter century, Buckton served as an Assistant Keeper in the British Museum and focused on the Early Christian and Byzantine collections. Colleagues and other admirers offer 25 essays to his honor. They consider such topics as body-chains from Hellenistic to Late Roman, visualizing women in Late Antique Rome through the Projecta casket, early Byzantine mercantile communities in the west, Saint Theodore and the Dragon, the Bristol Psalter, two enameled mounts from the Celtic fringe, design and invention in Gothic architecture as expressed at Mildenhall and Ely, and a Venetian goblet made for the Paris Exhibition of 1878 with gold leaf medallions of Early Christian martyrs. There are 16 pages of color plates, but no index. Distributed by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Through a Glass Brightly: Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton

Through a Glass Brightly: Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton

by Chris Entwistle
Through a Glass Brightly: Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton
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Through a Glass Brightly: Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton

Through a Glass Brightly: Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton

by Chris Entwistle

Overview

For about a quarter century, Buckton served as an Assistant Keeper in the British Museum and focused on the Early Christian and Byzantine collections. Colleagues and other admirers offer 25 essays to his honor. They consider such topics as body-chains from Hellenistic to Late Roman, visualizing women in Late Antique Rome through the Projecta casket, early Byzantine mercantile communities in the west, Saint Theodore and the Dragon, the Bristol Psalter, two enameled mounts from the Celtic fringe, design and invention in Gothic architecture as expressed at Mildenhall and Ely, and a Venetian goblet made for the Paris Exhibition of 1878 with gold leaf medallions of Early Christian martyrs. There are 16 pages of color plates, but no index. Distributed by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785702518
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Publication date: 07/30/2016
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Bibliography for David Buckton

Preface (Peter Lasko)

1. A dandy dipper: the Ambleteuse clepsydra, Empedocles, and wine-thieves I have known (Donald M. Bailey)

2. Body-chains: Hellenistic to Late Roman (Catherine Johns)

3. Light on Byzantium - a universal sundial at the British Museum (Silke Ackermann)

4. Visualising women in Late Antique Rome: the Projecta casket (Jas Elsner)

5. Sources of cloisonne enamel: some early fused gold and glass inlays (Noel Adams)

6. On the date of the Symmachi panel and the so-called Grado Chair ivories (Paul Williamson)

7. Who's that girl? Personifications of the Byzantine empress (Liz James)

8. A painting of Saint Kollouthos (Maria Vassilaki)

9. Three illuminating objects in the Lampsacus treasure (Marlia M. Mango)

10. Early Byzantine mercantile communities in the West (Ken Dark)

11. Studying the Byzantine staurotheque at Esztergom (Paul Hetherington)

12. Saint Theodore and the Dragon (Christopher Walter)

13. Apotropaic devices on Byzantine lead seals in the Collections of Dumbarton Oaks and the Fogg Museum of Art (John W. Nesbitt)

14. Middle Byzantine (10th-13th century AD) stamp seals in semi-precious stone (Jeffrey Spier)

15. The Bristol Psalter (Leslie Brubaker)

16. The production of red glass and enamel in the Late Iron Age, Roman and Byzantine periods (Ian C. Freestone, Colleen P. Stapleton and Valery Rigby)

17. 'The Celtic Fringe': two enamelled mounts (Susan Youngs)

18. Some late tenth- and eleventh-century Cloisonne brooches and finger-rings from Denmark (Fritze Lindahl)

19. Containers for Agnus Deis (John Cherry)

20. Design and Innovation in Gothic architecture: Mildenhall and Ely (Barrie Singleton)

21. Abbe James Hamilton: antiquary, patron of the arts, Victorian Anglo-Catholic (Paul Corby Finney)

22. Nineteenth-century versions of the Veroli Casket (Anthony Cutler)

23. A Venetian goblet made for the Paris Exhibition of 1878 with gold leaf medallions of Early Christian martyrs (Judy Rudoe)

24. Felix Slade's forgotten version of the so-called Early Christian 'Amiens Chalice' (Hugh Tait)

25. 'Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon Earth': the British Museum and the second Cyprus treasure (Chris Entwistle)

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