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Rhetoric, nature and magic in Byzantine art / Henry Maguire.

By: Maguire, Henry, 1943-Material type: TextTextSeries: Collected studies ; CS603.Publication details: Aldershot ; Brookfield, VT : Ashgate, c1998. Description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 086078634X (alk paper)Subject(s): Art, Byzantine -- Themes, motives | Byzantine literature | Art -- historyDDC classification: 709/.02/14 LOC classification: N7852.5 | .M35 1998
Contents:
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.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.