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Byzantium and British Heritage Byzantine influences on the Arts and Crafts Movement

344 Pages 90 Color & 45 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

344 Pages 90 Color & 45 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

344 Pages 90 Color & 45 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Byzantium was a very influential part of the development of the Arts and Crafts Movement (1880–1910) in Britain, and although the influence of the Gothic Revival (1830–80) is well known, that of the Byzantine Revival (1840–1910) is not. This volume is about the people and the movements that created the Byzantine Revival and shows how they　influenced British heritage from architecture to the... Read more

Preface

Amalia G. Kakissis

Prelude to the Byzantine Revival

1 The Byzantine Revival in Europe

J. B. Bullen

2 The Discovery of Byzantium by British Visitors to Greece and What They Saw

Robin Cormack

3 The Restoration of Byzantine Monuments in Nineteenth-Century Greece: In Search of the Anti-Restoration Movement’s Impact

Eleni-Anna Chlepa

Pioneers and Patronage

4 ‘What I Want is to Locate My Dome’: The Byzantinism of the Third Marquess of Bute

Ruth Macrides

5 ‘Byzantine Art Still Exists’; W.R. Lethaby and the Byzantine Revival.

Julian Holder

6 ‘A Piece of Sherlock Holmes Inference’ (sic): Byzantine Recordings in Nineteenth-Century Greece and the Art and Crafts Architects of the Byzantine Research Fund Archive of the British School at Athens.

Dimitra Kotoula

7 Walter S. George and the Byzantine House: Ruskin’s Greek Shadow

Kostis Kourelis

8 Schultz Revisited

Gavin Stamp

Byzantium and Modernism: Britain and Beyond

9 Sidney Barnsley, Byzantium, and Furniture-Making

Mary Greensted

10 The Mosaic Landscape of Westminster Cathedral

Claudia Tedeschi

11 The Byzantine Research and Publication Fund Architect Walter Sykes George (1881–1962): His Academic Studies and His Architecture

Richard J. Butler