[PDF.04wx] Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium

Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium

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 | #1338217 in Books |  1997-12-22 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  11.00 x.66 x8.50l,2.17 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| An Excellent Resourse|By DKO|This is a required text for an art history course on Byzantine art and architecture that I am taking. The eight well-written lectures cover the rise of Constantinople (modern day Istanbul, Turkey), the central themes of Byzantine theology (Eastern Orthodoxy), and the place of art, particularly iconography, in the worship of the Orthodox Church. As| ||“This most useful book is the product of a lecture series titled ’sailing to Byzantium: The Sacred Core of a Great Civilization’ sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. . . . Each scholar writes with a clarity sufficient for someone new to

This easily accessible volume, which grew out of a series of lectures presented at the Smithsonian Institution in 1991, aims to provide a coherent introduction to Byzantine culture with a focus on the interconnected realms of art and religion. The eight participants have revised their lectures into chapters on Byzantine history, theology, icons and icon theory, church architecture, monumental painting, silver church furnishings, illustrated liturgical books, and pilgr...

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