Slobodan Ćurčić

Euangelia Chatzētryphōnos

Evangelia Hadjitryphonos

Kathleen E. McVey

Hélène Saradi

Princeton University. Art Museum

"Byzantine art abandoned classical ideals in favor of formulas that conveyed spiritual concepts through stylized physical forms. Previous scholarship dealing with Byzantine icons has been largely focused on depictions of holy figures, dismissing representations of architecture as irrelevant space-filling background. Architecture as Icon demonstrates that background representations of architecture are meaningful, active components of compositions, often as significant as the holy figures. The book provides a critical view for understanding the Byzantine conception of architectural forms and space and the corresponding intellectual underpinnings of their representation."--P. 2 of cover.

Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art

Architecture as Icon

Illustrated with over nine hundred photographs and drawings, most of them specially commissioned, the book presents a generally unknown body of material in a distinctive and unprecedented manner. --Book Jacket.

Slobodan Ćurčić

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