Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art: The Vicissitudes of Contact between Human and Divine

This volume explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits.

It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory contact shown between ordinary, mortal figures and their holy, supernatural interlocutors.

The topic is approached from a range of perspectives, including art history, theology, structuralist and post-structuralist anthropological theory, and contemporary symbol and metaphor theory.