A new generation of American medieval art historians explores how sacred images were perceived during the Middle Ages in Byzantium and Europe. The essays cover a full range of images, including panel paintings, altarpieces, manuscripts, and wall paintings, and a rich variety of socioreligious settings, private, monastic, and imperial. Also examined are the differences between images produced for a single viewer and those produced for communities; images produced for private contemplation or devotion and those functioned ...
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A new generation of American medieval art historians explores how sacred images were perceived during the Middle Ages in Byzantium and Europe. The essays cover a full range of images, including panel paintings, altarpieces, manuscripts, and wall paintings, and a rich variety of socioreligious settings, private, monastic, and imperial. Also examined are the differences between images produced for a single viewer and those produced for communities; images produced for private contemplation or devotion and those functioned within a liturgical setting; and the varying ways in which sacred images affected women and men, religious and secular communities, rulers and ruled.
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Add this copy of The Sacred Image East and West to cart. $31.50, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by University of Illinois Press.
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VG-with NF text but light wear to covers/Good+ dj, clean and tight but with light edge wear to top. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Glossy blue dj with bw illus. and white lettering. 312 pp. with 103 bw figures. An exploration of how sacred images were perceived during the Middle Ages in Byzantium and Europe. Covers Byzantine panel portraits, The Virgin of Chora, the Liber miraculorum of Unerlinden, frontispiece miniatures of Paris, and more essay on both specific and general iconography/sacred imagery. With insight into socioreligious settings and the differences between images produced for single viewers versus communities; for private contemplation versus devotion; how images affected women and men differently; and more. (paraphrased from the dj).
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79pp photoplates. Name on flyleaf. Minor wear. VG., dustwrapper. 24x16cm, xiii, 312 pp., Series: Illinois Byzantine Studies, 4. Contains 10 papers presented at a session of the International Congress on Medieval Studies entitled The sacred image: East and West, sponsored by the Byzantine Studies Conference, held in Kalamazoo, Mich. in 1991.
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