Carolyn Connor
Impeccably referenced and beautifully illustrated, Other Icons opens up a new side of Byzantine art at the height of its creativity.
Carolyn Connor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Linda Safran
The new corpus of material assembled here will surely spur further investigation into how all the Byzantine arts, broadly defined, served to reflect, reinforce, and construct a Byzantine worldview. Merely by gathering together so much 'unofficial' art, the Maguires have done a huge service. Even more impressive is their successful attempt to make sense of this disparate body of material by interpreting it consistently, yet flexibly, in relation to the familiar 'official' arts. Byzantine art history, and especially the teaching of Byzantine art history, will never be the same.
Linda Safran, University of Toronto
From the Publisher
"The new corpus of material assembled here will surely spur further investigation into how all the Byzantine arts, broadly defined, served to reflect, reinforce, and construct a Byzantine worldview. Merely by gathering together so much 'unofficial' art, the Maguires have done a huge service. Even more impressive is their successful attempt to make sense of this disparate body of material by interpreting it consistently, yet flexibly, in relation to the familiar 'official' arts. Byzantine art history, and especially the teaching of Byzantine art history, will never be the same."—Linda Safran, University of Toronto"Impeccably referenced and beautifully illustrated, Other Icons opens up a new side of Byzantine art at the height of its creativity."—Carolyn Connor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill