The Icons of Their Bodies
Saints and Their Images in Byzantium
The Byzantines surrounded themselves with their saints, invisible but constant companions, who were made visible by dreams, visions, and art. The composition and presentation of this imagined gallery followed a logical structure, a construct that was itself a collective work of art created by Byzantine society. The purpose of this book is to analyze the logic of the saint's image in Byzantium, both in portraits and in narrative scenes. Here Henry Maguire argues that the Byzantines gave to their images differing formal characteristics of movement, modeling, depth, and differentiation, according to the tasks that the icons were called upon to p…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-691-05007-2
- EAN: 9780691050072
- Produktnummer: 9254028
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H25.4 cm x B20.3 cm x D1.3 cm 528 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 528
Über den Autor
Henry Maguire is Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. From 1991 to 1996 he served as Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. His books include Art and Eloquence in Byzantium (Princeton), and he was a contributor to The Glory of Byzantium.
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