Henry Maguire

Image and Imagination in Byzantine Art (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The twelve studies contained in this second collection by Henry Maguire are linked together by a common theme, namely the relationship of Byzantine art to the imaginary. They show how art enabled the Byzantines not only to imagine the sacred events of the past, but also to visualize the invisible present by manifesting the spiritual world that they

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000949896
• Artikelnr.: 68118082

Autorenporträt

Henry Maguire is Professor in the Art History Department at The Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
The Nile and the rivers of Paradise
The medieval floors of the Great Palace
Paradise withdrawn
Epigrams, art, and the 'Macedonian Renaissance'
Magic and money in the early Middle Ages
The depiction of sorrow in Middle Byzantine art
Byzantine rhetoric, Latin drama and the portrayal of the New Testament
Medieval art in southern Italy: Latin drama and the Greek literary imagination
From the evil eye to the eye of justice: the saints, art, and justice in Byzantium
Abaton and oikonomia: St Neophytos and the iconography of the presentation of the Virgin
The heavenly court
Davidic virtue: the crown of Constantine Monomachos and its images
Index.