The Sacred Image East and West
Urbana, Ill. University of Illinois Press, 1995. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Glossy blue dj with bw illus. and white lettering. 312 pp. with 103 bw figures. VG- with NF text but light wear to covers/Good+ dj, clean and tight but with light edge wear to top. Item #146963
ISBN: 9780252020964
An exploration of how sacred images were perceived during the Middle Ages in Byzantium and Europe. Covers Byzantine panel portraits, The Virgin of Chora, the Liber miraculorum of Unerlinden, frontispiece miniatures of Paris, and more essay on both specific and general iconography/sacred imagery. With insight into socioreligious settings and the differences between images produced for single viewers versus communities; for private contemplation versus devotion; how images affected women and men differently; and more. (paraphrased from the dj).
Price: $30.00