Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art
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By Slobodan Curcic (Editor), Slobodan Curcic (Contribution by), Evangelia Hadjitryphonos (Contribution by), Kathleen E. McVey (Contribution by), Helen G. Saradi (Contribution by)
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Presenting the first formulation of the central subject, this volume challenges major assumptions long held by Western art historians and provides new ways of thinking about, looking at, and understanding Byzantine art in its broadest geographic and chronological framework, from A.D. 300 to the early nineteenth century.
Byzantine art abandoned classical ideals in favor of formulas that conveyed spiritual concepts through stylized physical forms. Scholarship dealing with Byzantine icons has p...
Byzantine art abandoned classical ideals in favor of formulas that conveyed spiritual concepts through stylized physical forms. Scholarship dealing with Byzantine icons has p...






















