Author: Henry Maguire
Earth and Ocean: The Terrestrial World in Early Byzantine Art
Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN: 0271004770
1987
Format: PDF
Size: 67,0 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 96
One of the most distinctive characteristics of Byzantine art of the later fifth and the sixth centuries AU. is its fondness for imagery drawn from natural history. Wherever the visitor looks in churches of this period, whether it be to the floors, the walls, the furnishing, or the ceilings and the vaults, there may be representations of birds, beasts, sea creatures, and plants.
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