Reading ancient and medieval art
By: editor for this issue, Herbert L. Kessler
Series: Word & image : a journal of verbal/visual enquiry -- vol. 5, no. 1 (January-March 1989); Word & image (London, England) -- v. 5, no. 1
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1989
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Ancient Art; Medieval Art; Byzantine Art
Notes: A special issue of Word & image compiled to further the discussion of how pictures conveyed meaning.

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Reading ancient and medieval art / H.L. Kessler; title: The intention of biographical narration on Mithraic cult images / S.R. Zwirn; title: Perception and conception : art, theory and culture in ninth-century Byzantium / L. Brubaker; title: Servants of the mother of God in Byzantine and medieval art / R. Deshman; title: Purification, sacred action and the vision of God : viewing medieval narratives / C. Hahn; title: A pictorial Speculum Principis : the image of Henry II in Cod. Bibl. Vat. Ottobonensis lat. 74, fol. 139v* / J.T. Wollesen; title: Visual signs of the sacred page : books in the Bible moralisée / M. Camille; title: Letter writing and picture reading : medieval textuality and the Bestiaire d'amour / H. Solterer.