The 350 works in "The Glory of Byzantium" (at the Metropolitan Museum in New York through July 6) are like the tesserae of a mosaic; whether they form a coherent and affecting image depends on where one stands to look at them. The people I know who have spent time in what was once Byzantium came away from the Met exhibition disappointed. Those of us who haven’t visited (...)
Art
The Glory of Byzantium
"The Glory of Byzantium" at the Met
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