Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture

by Henry Maguire and Eunice Dauterman Maguire

A winged centaur with the spotted body of a leopard playing a lute; a naked man with an animal head; a goat-footed Pan; a four-bodied lion; sphinxes, and hippocamps. Few would associate these forms of art with the Byzantine era, a period dominated by religious art. However, an art of strikingly secular expression was not only common to Byzantine culture, but also key to defining it. In Other Icons , Eunice Dauterman Maguire and Henry Maguire offer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691125643
• ISBN13: 9780691125640
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 5.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 9.0"