Art and Miracles in Medieval Byzantium: the Crypt At Hosios Loukas and Its Frescoes

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. First ed., first printing (full number line). Quarto with sage cloth boards in dark blue and sage pictorial jacket; sxiii, 132 pages, 68 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color); 29 cm Near fine with bookshop sticker on rear pastedown; in near fine jacket; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780691040844, 0691040842

Originally a doctoral thesis. "The frescoes of the newly restored crypt at the Byzantine monastery of Hosios Loukas in Greece represent one of the best preserved ensembles of monumental decoration to survive from the Middle Ages. In this first full photo-documentation of the crypt at the monastery founded by Saint Luke of Steiris in the mid-tenth century, Carolyn Connor shows how the frescoes reflect the funerary and commemorative functions of the architecture they embellish, and how they suggest a new way of looking at this part of the medieval Byzantine empire." --Jacket. | **Somewhat heavy or large item. Additional shipping fees may be needed for expedited, priority, or international orders. Please inquire**