Byzantium Rediscovered

The Byzantine Revival in Europe and America

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by J. B. Bullen

Phaidon Press

Due/Published September 2003, 240 pages, cloth

ISBN 0714839574

This book investigates a fascinating and important but relatively unfamiliar subject, the revival of interest in the Byzantine style of architecture and decoration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Byzantine Revival was always a minority cult that attracted outsiders, visionaries and extremists, and Barrie Bullens original and scholarly narrative tells a story of the colorful figures in Germany, Austria, France, Britain and America who rediscovered Byzantium and reinterpreted its style to promote widely differing aims.

220 colour and 30 bw illustrations