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The icons of their bodies

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  • "The Byzantines surrounded themselves with their saints, invisible but constant companions, who were made visible by dreams, visions, and art. The composition and presentation of this imagined gallery followed a logical structure, a construct that was itself a collective work of art created by Byzantine society. The purpose of this book is to analyze the logic of the saint's image in Byzantium, both in portraits and in narrative scenes. Here Henry Maguire argues that the Byzantines gave to their images differing formal characteristics of movement, modeling, depth, and differentiation, according to the tasks that the icons were called upon to perform in the all-important business of communication between the visible and the invisible worlds."

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  • "The Icons of their bodies : Saints and their images in Byzantium"
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  • "The icons of their bodies : saints and their images in Byzantium"
  • "The icons of their bodies saints and their images in Byzantium"

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