John Beckwith (1) (1918–1991)
Autor(a) de Early Medieval Art: Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque
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Obras por John Beckwith
The Veroli Casket 5 exemplares
The Basilewsky situla 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Beckwith, John
- Nome legal
- Beckwith, John Gordon
- Data de nascimento
- 1918-12-02
- Data de falecimento
- 1991-02-20
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Whitby, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Causa da morte
- throat cancer
- Educação
- Exeter College, University of Oxford (MA|1947)
- Ocupações
- art historian
museum curator - Organizações
- Victoria and Albert Museum
British Army (WWII) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Fellow, British Academy (1974)
Fellow, Society of Antiquaries (1968)
Membros
Críticas
Early Medieval Art por John Beckwith
Well illustrated with 206 plates, 53 in color
This book traces the tendencies in art created in Constantinople from the founding of the city to its conquest by the Turks. For a layman in Byzantine art history, it is a challenge to grasp visually the distinctions and trends that the author points out in individual, small-sized black-and-white reproductions of mosaics, frescos, icons, coins, sculptures, ivories, tapestries, and manuscripts. But sometimes the detailed analytic style will rise to broader historical judgments such as very strong condemnation of the Fourth Crusade for having pillaged Constantinople and thoughts on the final conquest of the Turks.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Membros
- 580
- Popularidade
- #43,223
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 44
- Línguas
- 4