The Byzantine Empire

Duration: 14

Year Published: 1959

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Crane Brinton

Description: See description for color version CC1120., Presents a brief historical outline of the Byzantine Empire and indicates its cultural and religious contributions. Provides a survey of the Empire's art, religion, and scholarship. Shows examples of its mosaic work, ivory carving, jewelry, ornamentation, book illumination, silk work, stone carving, icons, and architecture. Stresses the ideas that this was a civilization which loved beauty and produced an extraordinary quantity of art objects.

Complete Record: See description for color version CC1120., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

Metadata Source:Wikipedia — List of Coronet Films

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