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Myrtali Acheimastou-Potamianou, gen. ed.; David A. Hardy, trans.
From Byzantium to El Greco: Greek Frescoes and Icons.
Publishers: Greek Ministry of Culture/Byzantine Museum of Athens/Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback stitch bound.
Printed in Greece.
Size: 211x279x14mm.
Page count: 206pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs on the covers, a bit of wear on the edges and corners; pages starting to yellow with age; the spine has a small split at the top but is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 903g.

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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 27th to June 21st, 1987.

Contents:
1. Essays:
Avramea, Byzantine Greece;
Browning, Byzantium & ancient Greece;
Ware, Theology & spirituality of the icon;
Chatzidakis, Byzantine wall painting in Greece;
Acheimastou-Potamianou, Byzantine icons;
Maltezou, The Greek world & the Latin domination;
Chatzidakis, Icon painting in Crete during the 15th & 16th cc.;
Constantoudaki-Kitromillides, Taste & the market in Cretan icons in the 15th & 16th cc.;
Bouras, Working drawings of painters in Greece after the fall of Constantinople;
2. Plates;
3. Catalogue [73 items, organised under the following headings: Byzantine wood-carvings; Byzantine & post-Byzantine wall paintings; Byzantine icons; Post-Byzantine icons; Cartoons].

Illustrations: 73 plates primarily in colour; catalogue thumbnails all monochrome
Maps & plans: 1

Notes: at end of each catalogue entry
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: 5pp
Indexes: Iconographical; Names.

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