Architecture as icon: perception and representation of architecture in byzantine art

Scholarship dealing with Byzantine icons has previously been largely focused on depictions of holy figures, dismissing representations of architecture as irrelevant space-filling background. Architecture as Icon demonstrates that background representations of architecture are meaningful, active components of compositions, often as significant as the human figures. The book provides a critical view for understanding the Byzantine conception of architectural forms and space and the corresponding intellectual underpinnings of their representation.

• ISBN: 978-0-300-12211-4
• Editorial: Yale University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés