The selection of sacred art objects including tabernacles, plates, bottles, bibs, votive, crosses show the high technical level of the Greek craftsmen. Precious metals, like gold and silver, beautifully decorated with carvings, chisels and shapes embossed and adorned with precious stones like rubies and sapphires, are analyzed in terms of historical and artistic. Each object is recognized style often characterized by traditional Greek and Byzantine style more properly Islamic, as well as Western influences brought by the commercial traffic between Italian ports and Constantinople. The objects come from the Greek Orthodox community stationed on the Turkish coast under the rule of the Ottoman empire from the fourteenth century.
- ISBN10 8874395752
- ISBN13 9788874395750
- Publish Date 1 March 2011
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country IT
- Imprint Five Continents Editions
- Edition Bilingual
- Format Paperback
- Pages 231
- Language English