The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium by Henry Maguire

The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium

Henry Maguire

240 pages 1996

2 editions

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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 ...

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