Maguire, Henry,  1943- <br/><br/>
Rhetoric, nature and magic in Byzantine art / 
Henry Maguire. 
 - Aldershot ;  Brookfield, VT :  Ashgate,  c1998. 
 - 1 v. (various pagings) :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
 - Variorum collected studies series ;  CS603 .
 - Collected studies  CS603. .
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Truth and convention in Byzantine descriptions of works of art -- Originality in Byzantine art criticism -- The 'half-cone' vault of St. Stephen at Gaza -- Adam and the animals : allegory and the literal sense in early Christian art -- An early Christian marble relief at Kavala -- Christians, pagans and the representation of nature -- The mantle of earth -- Magic and geometry in early Christian floor mosaics and textiles -- The Cage of Crosses : ancient and medieval sculptures on the 'Little Metropolis' in Athens -- A murderer among the angels : the frontispiece miniatures of Paris Gr. 510 and the iconography of the archangels in Byzantine art -- The art of comparing in Byzantium -- Style and ideology in Byzantine imperial art -- The mosaics of Nea Moni : an imperial reading -- The iconography of Symeon with the Christ Child in Byzantine art -- The self-conscious angel : character study in Byzantine paintings of the annunciation -- A description of the Aretai Palace and its garden -- The beauty of castles : a tenth-century description of a tower at Constantinople -- Imperial gardens and the rhetoric of renewal. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>086078634X (alk paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>^^^97049823^ 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art, Byzantine--Themes, motives.<br/>Byzantine literature<br/>Art--history
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N7852.5  / .M35 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709/.02/14