For more than a thousand years, until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire, the Christian successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, stretched across large areas of Europe,North Africa and the Near East. Under successive emperors, the artists, architects and craftsmen of Byzantium (Constantinople, modern Istanbul) worked within a long-established tradition to produce superb buildings and art works of great expressive power. Churches were planned around a central,domed space, and their walls covered in mosaics showing mysterious, stylized figures set against a shimmering gold background.

Foreword

introduction

Chapter 1 : Bavaria, Prussia and Austria

Goethe and the Boisseree Brothers

Ludwig I of Bavaria

Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia

Ludwig II of Bavaria and Richard Wagner

Austria

Chapter 2 : France

Rewriting French Architectural History

Byzantine Art and the Church

Sainte-Marie-Majeure, Marseilles

Hippolyte Flandrin and Dominique Papety

Byzantine and Romanesque in French Architectural Writing

The Decoration of the Pantheon

The Building of the Sacre-Coeur

Gautier, Moreau, Huysmans and Sardou

Maurice Denis and the Iconic Mode in Paintincl

Chapter 3: Britain

Early Nineteenth-Century Responses to Byzantine Architecture

Byzantium and the History of Art

Oxford, Cambridge and a New Architectural History

British Travellers in Byzantine Italy

Ruskin and Byzantine Venice

Responses to Ruskin

The Byzantine Court at the Crystal Palace

George Gilbert Scott and Secular Byzantine

Salviati and the Mosaic Revival

The Decoration of St Paul's Cathedral

Butterfield, Burne-Jones and Byzantium

Some Early Neo-Byzantine Churches

The Arts and Crafts Movement

W.R. Lethaby and Byzantine Scholarship

Bentley and Westminster Cathedral

Bloomsbury and its Critics

Chapter 4： North America

Henry Hobhouse Richardson

Ralph Adams Cram

Louis Comfort Tiffany

John Singer Sargent

North America at the Turn of the Century

Bertram Goodhue

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Acknowledgements