Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.

In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states--t

This book provides an introduction to early medieval art, both the images themselves and the methods used to study them, focusing on the relationship of word an

Originally published by Prentice-Hall, 1971.