Ebook: Saints and spectacle : Byzantine mosaics in their cultural setting
Author: Connor Carolyn L
- Tags: Mosaics Byzantine, Themes motives, Architecture Byzantine, Church architecture, Byzantine Empire, Art and society, Byzantine Empire, Church and state, Byzantine Empire
- Series: Oxford scholarship online
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The awe-inspiring mosaics covering the walls, vaults, and domes of Byzantine churches of the medieval period still remain a mystery to modern viewers. Saints and Spectacle ventures into the world of ninth- and tenth-century Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, to recapture the spirit of Byzantine thought and expression after Iconoclasm. Texts, artworks, and the archaeological record aid in Read more...
Abstract: The awe-inspiring mosaics covering the walls, vaults, and domes of Byzantine churches of the medieval period still remain a mystery to modern viewers. Saints and Spectacle ventures into the world of ninth- and tenth-century Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, to recapture the spirit of Byzantine thought and expression after Iconoclasm. Texts, artworks, and the archaeological record aid in reconstructing the visual and literary context of the age of the first rulers of the Macedonian Dynasty