"Sailing to Byzantium". To do this became a romantic ideal in the poetry of W B Yeats. But despite this popular poem, the word Byzantine is still most often used today to evoke the obscure, the remote and over-complicated. Wrongly, I believe, Yeats was absolutely right to be dazzled by the golden treasures and mosaics [...]The post Exploring Byzantine Art With Robin Cormack appeared first on Voyages to Antiquity's Blog.
