About the Author

André Grabar (1896–1990) was an internationally renowned historian of Byzantine and medieval art and a central figure at Dumbarton Oaks, a research institute of Harvard University in Washington, DC. His many books include Byzantine and Early Medieval Painting and Romanesque Painting from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century.

Reviews

"A major contribution to the history of Christianity and Europe."
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"Grabar considers his material with a wisdom and good sense all his own."---John Beckwith, Apollo

"Packed with the observant scholarship for which the author has long been famous."---Cornelius C. Vermeule III, Classical World