Title: Sacred shock : framing visual experience in Byzantium /
Authors: Peers, Glenn.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Art, Byzantine; Christian art and symbolism Byzantine Empire.; Composition (Art); Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts) Byzantine Empire.; Picture frames and framing Byzantine Empire.
Abstract: "Art did not exist in Byzantium. As Glenn Peers explains in Sacred Shock, there were, instead, a variety of devotional objects - pectoral crosses, church mosaics, icons, and illuminated manuscripts - regarded as infused with divine presence and used in religious practices. What concerns Peers is the means by which the relationship between the divine and the human was made manifest through crafted, material objects."--Jacket.
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.