Architecture as icon : perception and representation of architecture in Byzantine art / Slobodan Ćurčić and Evangelia Hadjitryphonos ; with contributions by Kathleen E. McVey and Helen G. Saradi.

Main entry:

Ćurčić, Slobodan.

Title & Author:

Architecture as icon : perception and representation of architecture in Byzantine art / Slobodan Ćurčić and Evangelia Hadjitryphonos ; with contributions by Kathleen E. McVey and Helen G. Saradi.

Publication:

Description:

xix, 356 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Architecture as icon / Slobodan Ćurčić -- Spirit embodied: the emergence of symbolic interpretations of early Christian and Byzantine architecture / Kathleen E. McVey -- Space in Byzantine thought / Helen G. Saradi -- Presentations and representations of architecture in Byzantium: the thought behind the image / Evangelia Hadjitryphonos.

Summary:

"Byzantine art abandoned classical ideals in favor of formulas that conveyed spiritual concepts through stylized physical forms. Previous scholarship dealing with Byzantine icons has been largely focused on depictions of holy figures, dismissing representations of architecture as irrelevant space-filling background. Architecture as Icon demonstrates that background representations of architecture are meaningful, active components of compositions, often as significant as the holy figures. The book provides a critical view for understanding the Byzantine conception of architectural forms and space and the corresponding intellectual underpinnings of their representation."--Page 2 of cover.

ISBN:

9780300122114 (pbk.)
030012211X (pbk.)

Subject:

Art, Byzantine.
Architecture in art.
Architecture, Byzantine.
Art byzantin.
Architecture dans l'art.
Architecture byzantine.
Architektur
Kunst
Byzantinische Architektur Motiv Byzantinische Kunst.
Architektur frühchristliche Motiv Byzantinische Kunst.
Byzantinische Kunst Motiv Byzantinische Architektur.
Byzantinische Kunst Motiv Architektur frühchristliche.
Architekturdarstellung byzantinische.
Art, Byzantine Exhibitions.
Architecture in art Exhibitions.
Architecture, Byzantine Exhibitions.
Bysantinsk arkitektur.
Byzantinisches Reich

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Chatzētryphōnos, Euangelia.
McVey, Kathleen E., 1944-
Saradi, Hélène.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266462
Call No.: BIB 198318
Status: Available

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