Nectar and Illusion: Nature in Byzantine Art and Literature

by Henry Maguire

Nature and Illusion is the first extended treatment of the portrayal of nature in Byzantine art and literature. In this richly illustrated study, Henry Maguire shows how the Byzantines embraced terrestrial creation in the decoration of their churches during the fifth to seventh centuries but then adopted a much more cautious attitude toward the depiction of animals and plants in the middle ages, after the iconoclastic dispute of the eighth and ninth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199766606
• ISBN13: 9780199766604
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"