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Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture

Door Eunice Dauterman Maguire e.a.

Categorie	Klassieke Oudheid
Boeknummer	#394790-KL35
Titel	Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture
Auteur	Maguire, Eunice Dauterman & Henry Maguire
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Princeton University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	0691125643
ISBN13	9780691125640
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, numerous illustrations in b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting	"A winged centaur with the spotted body of a leopard playing a lute; a naked man with an animal head; a goat-footed Pan; a four-bodied lion; sphinxes; and hippocamps. Few would associate these forms of art with the Byzantine era, a period dominated by religious art. However, an art of strikingly secular expression was not only common to Byzantine culture, but also key to defining it. In Other Icons, Eunice Dauterman Maguire and Henry Maguire offer the first comprehensive view of this "unofficial" Byzantine art, demonstrating the role it played and its dialogue with traditional Christian Byzantine art. This beautifully illustrated book creates an entirely new understanding of the whole of Byzantine art and culture. With its wide-ranging examples, the book vividly demonstrates... (Lees verder) how the surprise of this "profane" art is not only in its subjects of mythic creatures, exotic imagery, and eroticism, but also in the ubiquity and beauty of their placement--within churches and without, woven into silk, illuminated on manuscripts, engraved into pottery, painted in frescoes, and taking life in marble, bone, and ivory. By presenting and exploring this profane art for the first time in a scholarly book in English, Other Icons will change the way we look at the art of an entire era." http://www. loc. gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2005035716-d. html.
Pagina's	201
Conditie	Goed — Dust jacket stretched at rear.
Prijs	€ 40,00

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