Byzantium and British Heritage - Byzantine Influences on the Arts and Crafts Movement

This volume is about the people and the movements which created the Byzantine Revival and shows how they influenced British heritage from architecture to the decorative arts during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

List of contents

1 The Byzantine Revival in Europe / 2 The Discovery of Byzantium by British Visitors to Greece and What They Saw / 3 The Restoration of Byzantine Monuments in Nineteenth-Century Greece: In Search of the Anti-Restoration Movement's Impact / 4 'What I want is to Locate My Dome'. The Byzantinism of the Third Marquess of Bute / 5 'Byzantine Art Still Exists'; W.R. Lethaby and the Byzantine Revival. / 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. / 7 Walter S. George and the Byzantine House: Ruskin's Greek Shadow / 8 Schultz Revisited / 9 Sidney Barnsley, Byzantium, and Furniture-Making / 10 The Mosaic Landscape of Westminster Cathedral / 11 The Byzantine Research and Publication Fund Architect Walter Sykes George (1881-1962): His Academic Studies and His Architecture / 12 Scottish Byzantinists: Architects, Scholars and Their Networks

About the author

Amalia G. Kakissis is Archivist at the British School at Athens.

Product details

• Authors: Amalia G. Kakissis
• Assisted by: Amalia G. Kakissis (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032286730
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228673-0
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, c 2686 to c 323 BCE (Ancient Egyptian period)