
Nectar and illusion : nature in Byzantine art and literature
Title:
Nectar and illusion : nature in Byzantine art and literature
Author:
Maguire, Henry, 1943-
ISBN:
9780199974252
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Series:
Onassis series in Hellenic culture
Onassis series in Hellenic culture.
Contents:
Nature and idolatry -- Nature and rhetoric -- Nature and metaphor -- Nature and abstraction -- Nature and architecture.
Abstract:
This title provides an extended study of the portrayal of nature in Byzantine art and literature. It provides a different view of Byzantine art in relation to the medieval art of Western Europe.
Genre:
Electronic Access:
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