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Sacred shock : framing visual experience in Byzantium

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Art did not exist in Byzantium. Devotional objects - pectoral crosses, church mosaics, icons, and illuminated manuscripts - were regarded as infused with divine presence and used in religious practices.

This book examines the means by which the relationship between the divine and the human was made manifest through crafted, material objects.

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0271024704 / 9780271024707
Hardback
03/01/2005
United States
English
208 p. : ill.
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