In this interdisciplinary study, Henry Maguire examines the impact of several literary genres and rhetorical techniques on the visual arts of Byzantium. In particular, he shows that the literary embellishments of the sermons and hymns of the church nourished the imaginations of artists, and fundamentally affected the iconography, style and arrangement of their work. Using provocative material previously unfamiliar to art historians, he concentrates on religious art from AD 843 to 1453.
- ISBN10 0691036934
- ISBN13 9780691036939
- Publish Date 9 October 1994 (first published 1 January 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 October 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 246
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/1511.html