Contesting the Logic of Painting: Art and Understanding in Eleventh-Century Byzantium

ISBN-13: 9789004162716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 216 str.

Charles Barber

Opis

Drawing on a range of philosophical and theological writings produced in eleventh-century Byzantium, this book offers a reading of the icon and Byzantine aesthetics that not only expands our understanding of these topics but challenges our assumptions about the work of art itself.