Byzantium 330 - 1453

Byzantium 330 - 1453 Exhibition

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October 30th 2008
On Thursday 30th October, Paddy Walsh took me to the Byzantium Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. It is open from 25 October 2008 to 22nd March 2009. It shows a vast array of paintings especially icons, busts such as that of Constantine 1, coins, parchments including some depicting the psalms, reliquaries, mosaics, chandeliers, perfume braziers and embroideries. Apparently W B Yeats wallowe ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more