Painting in Cappadocia: A Guide to the Sites and Byzantine Church Decoration Hennessy Cecily Jane
Painting in Cappadocia: A Guide to the Sites and Byzantine Church Decoration Hennessy Cecily Jane Art historian, Cecily Hennessy, explores medieval Byzantine wall paintings in churches cut out of the…
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Painting in Cappadocia: A Guide to the Sites and Byzantine Church Decoration Hennessy Cecily Jane
Art historian, Cecily Hennessy, explores medieval Byzantine wall paintings in churches cut out of the beautiful landscape of central Turkey. This book is designed for both intrigued visitors and for those looking for art-historical information and understanding. Many of these were decorated by local artists, sometimes monks, or by the finest artists brought from other centres, such as Constantinople.
It also encourages close examination of the painting, its meaning and its style and execution and provides background knowledge of Byzantine artistic and cultural It serves as a travel guide to the most important painted churches with numerous colour illustrations, plans and maps.