Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art

by Evangelina Hadjitryphonos, Evangelia Hadjitryphonos, Slobodan Ćurčić

Presenting the first formulation of the central subject, this volume challenges major assumptions long held by Western art historians and provides new ways of thinking about, looking at, and understanding Byzantine art in its broadest geographic and chronological framework, from A.D. 300 to the early nineteenth century.

Byzantine art abandoned classical ideals in favor of formulas that conveyed spiritual concepts through stylized physical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030012211X
• ISBN13: 9780300122114
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Art Museum
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.1" x 11.0"