Icon
By: Gary Vikan ... [et al.].
Series: Walters Art Gallery publication in the history of art
Publisher: Trust for Museum Exhibitions; Walters Art Gallery
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Byzantine Icons; Exhibitions; Byzantine Art; Greek Icons; Icon painting
Other titles: Icon, four essays.; Holy image, holy space.
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Holy image, holy space: icons and frescoes from Greece' which opened at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, August 21, 1988 and toured to the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; The Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth; The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and The Detroit Institute of Arts"--T.p. verso.

On half t.p.: Icon, four essays.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Sacred image, sacred power / Gary Vikan; title: Icons in the life of Byzantium / Robin Cormack; title: Between icon and the monumental decoration of a church : notes on Duccio's Maestà and the definition of the altarpiece / William Tronzo; title: The icon as cultural presence after 1453 / Thalia Gouma -Peterson.