Sacred Shock

Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust jacket. After an insightful discussion of pectoral crosses, Peers examines a series of case studies, which includes the depiction of the blood of Christ in the Chludov Psalter, a fourteenth-century icon of St. George, and the Mandylion, a famous relic thought to preserve the traces… Read more about this item

Pennsylvania State University, 2005. Gr.8°, 188 S., 385 Abb., OLwd., Minimale Anstreichungen in Blei, sonst tadellos. - 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… Read more about this item

Pennsylvania State University Press , pp. 208 . Hardback. New.

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Pennsylvania State University Press. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park 2004. 23.0 x 18.0cms, 188pp, b/w illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper Byzantine people saw their pectoral crosses, church mosaics, icons & illuminated manuscripts as infused with divine presence & used them in religious pratcices. The chapters are: the great age of the frame; the crucifixion contained & containing; the bloody page… Read more about this item