Icon And Word: The Power Of Images In Byzantium:Studies Pressented To Robin Cormack by Antony Eastmond

Icon And Word: The Power Of Images In Byzantium:Studies Pressented To Robin Cormack

Antony Eastmond

301 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

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Icons are traditionally regarded as timeless, motionless and eternal: windows onto Heaven. But it is not enough to simply wonder at their unchanging portrayal of divinity. How did they work? What did Byzantine culture want icons for? In what ways ...

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