Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Western Art

by John Beckwith

Book cover: Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Western Art

Extent: 382 pages

Publisher: Pindar Press

Subjects: Art & Art History, Byzantine Studies, Medieval Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 1989)

ISBN: 9780907132486

Price: $63.00

In stock

This volume compiles John Beckwith’s research on medieval and Byzantine art, emphasizing his expertise in Coptic and Byzantine textiles, ivory carving, metalwork, and cultural diffusion from Islam and Byzantium to Western Europe in the early Middle Ages.


This volume bring together John Beckwith’s papers on medieval and Byzantine art. They focus on those subjects which the author made his own, Coptic and Byzantine “textiles, Western European and Constantinopolitan ivory carving, and Byzantine metalwork. A final section includes a number of studies on cultural diffusion, from Islam and Byzantium to Western Europe, in the early Middle Ages.

  • By (author) John Beckwith