Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture by Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Henry Maguire

Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture

Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Henry Maguire

201 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
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A winged centaur with the spotted body of a leopard playing a lute; a naked man with an animal head; a goat-footed Pan; a four-bodied lion; sphinxes, and hippocamps. Few would associate these forms of art with the Byzantine era, a period dominated...

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