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Sacred shock : framing visual experience in Byzantium /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peers, Glenn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Art, Byzantine.
Christian art and symbolism > Byzantine Empire.
Composition (Art)
Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts) > Byzantine Empire.
Picture frames and framing > Byzantine Empire.
Table of Contents:
  • The great age of the frame
  • The crucifixion contained and containing
  • The bloody page in the Chludov Psalter
  • Gregory of Nazianzus as twelfth-century paradigm
  • Saint George and his iconic bodies
  • Silver cladding and the assimilation of bodies and faces
  • Framing the body.