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Nectar and illusion : nature in Byzantine art and literature / Henry Maguire.
LIBRA NX650.N38 M34 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maguire, Henry, 1943-
- Series:
- Onassis series in Hellenic culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature in art.
- Nature in literature.
- Arts, Byzantine--Themes, motives.
- Arts, Byzantine.
- Byzantine literature--Themes, motives.
- Byzantine literature.
- Nature--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Nature.
- Themes, motives.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 198 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Nature in Byzantine art and literature
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Nature and idolatry
- Nature and rhetoric
- Nature and metaphor
- Nature and abstraction
- Nature and architecture
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199766604
- 0199766606
- OCLC:
- 759395913
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