TY - BOOK AU - Μιχελής, Παναγιώτης Α., AU - Read,Herbert Edward TI - An aesthetic approach to Byzantine art AV - BH 136.B8 PY - 1955/// CY - London PB - B. T. Batsford Ltd KW - Αισθητική-- KW - Βυζαντινή KW - Αισθητική KW - Κατηγορίες KW - Τέχνη-- KW - Αρχιτεκτονική N1 - "I am indebted to Mr. Stephen Xydis for the first draft of the translation, to Miss Mary Moschona for giving it its final form" (Preface to the English edition); Καταχώρηση Μάρτ. 2001, απογρ. Δεκ. 2003; Περιλαμβάνει ευρετήρια (σσ. 277-284); Περιεχόμενα: Foreword by Sir Herbert Read / Preface to the English edition / Preface / List of illustrations / PART I: The aesthetic character of Christian art: Introduction - The beautiful and the sublime in art - The Christian ideal and its sublime character / PART II: The sublime in Byzantine art: The expression of the sublime in Byzantine architecture (The church - Technique - Space - Light - Decoration) - The expression of the sublime in Byzantine church painting (Hagiography - Technique - Perspective - Composition - Style) - The mutations of the sublime in the development of Byzantine art (The three stages - The first period, extension - The second period, intensity - the thirs period, emphasis - Painting) - Historical factors in Byzantine art and its originality (Historical factors - The Orient - Rome - Hellas - The duality of Byzantine art) / PART III: The aesthetic approach to the history of art: Art in time (Wolfflin's theory - The basic concepts - Auxiliary concepts) - The periodical alternations of the beautiful and the sublime in art (The three questions - Theocracy and anthropocracy - The objective auxiliary concepts of the history of art - The subjective auxiliary concepts of the history of art - Birth, maturity and decadence) - The interdependence of the aesthetic categories (The historical action of the aesthetic categories - The beautiful and the sublime - The tragic and the comic - The graceful and the ugly) / Conclusions / Index ER -