14 AUGUST 1926, Page 22

BYZANTINE ART. By Hayford Peirce and Royall Tyler.

- (Ernest Berm Limited. 21s. net.)

RECENT movements towards severely formal design adapted to the nature of the material used have led to, a widespread aesthetic as well as archaeological interest in Byzantine Art This monograph does not deal with architecture, and its historical introduction is too condensed to arouse or to satisfy the curiosity of the general reader. To the student it offers, in exceedingly handy form, a hundred well-reproduced photographs of Byzantine sculpture, metal-work, manuscripts, textiles and a few mosaics, with clear notes on colour, -condition

and date.