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Sacred shock : framing visual experience in Byzantium

Title
Sacred shock : framing visual experience in Byzantium / Glenn Peers.
Author
Peers, Glenn.
Publication
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2004.

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Description
xviii, 188 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Art, Byzantine
  • Christian art and symbolism > Byzantine Empire
  • Composition (Art)
  • Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts) > Byzantine Empire
  • Picture frames and framing > Byzantine Empire
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-184) and index.
Contents
The great age of the frame -- The crucifixion contained and containing -- The bloody page in the Chludov Psalter -- Gregory of Nazianzus as twelfth-century paradigm -- Saint George and his iconic bodies -- Silver cladding and the assimilation of bodies and faces -- Framing the body.
Call Number
JQE 05-180
ISBN
0271024704 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004005611
OCLC
54686308
Author
Peers, Glenn.
Title
Sacred shock : framing visual experience in Byzantium / Glenn Peers.
Imprint
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-184) and index.
Research Call Number
JQE 05-180
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