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

by Henry Maguire

Book Overview

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 was itself a collective work of art created by Byzantine society. The purpose of this book is to analyze the logic of the saint's image in Byzantium, both in portraits and in narrative scenes. Here Henry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691050074
• ISBN13: 9780691050072
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 10.0"