Customer Review: This is a good book no doubt, but...In this holy monastery there is much more valuable holy icons and should be presented in much more numbers.Maybe I`m asking to much, but with this treasure unpublished at all, it`s kinda sad to said. Quality of paper and photos are great and text with it. Good... more info
Customer Review: Mathews is primarily concerned to refute a particular early 20th-Century German and Eastern European ideological theory that the portrayal of Jesus in art was derived directly from the detailed portrayal of Roman emperors in art and that this artistic portrayal of Jesus as emperor legitimates... more info
Customer Review: Is this the same book? Different authors. From the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press homepage:
Translational Control Monograph 30
Edited by John W. B. Hershey, University of California, Davis; Michael B. Mathews, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Montreal
Customer Review: This inexpensive yet lavishly illustrated volume is an ideal introduction to the history of Byzantine art. As the previous reviewer has noted, it is arranged thematically. However, the themes themselves are those that arise more or less chronologically, so one does get a sense of moving from the... more info
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