Art and Miracles in Medieval Byzantium: The Crypt at Hosios Loukas and Its Frescoes

by Carolyn Connor

The frescoes of the newly restored crypt at the Byzantine monastery of Hosios Loukas in Greece represent one of the best preserved ensembles of monumental decoration to survive from the Middle Ages. In this first full photo-documentation of the crypt of Saint Luke of Steiris, Carolyn Connor shows how the frescoes reflect the funerary and commemorative functions of the architecture they embellish, and how they suggest a new way of looking at this part...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691040842
• ISBN13: 9780691040844
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 11.4"