Painting the Soul: Byzantium to El Greco
Gresham College Lectures
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Gresham College Lectures
Painting the Soul: Byzantium to El Greco
May 02, 2006
Gresham College
Professor Robin Cormack, The Getty Research Institute and Courtauld Institute of Art The development of icons from late antiquity to the period of El Greco. Icons flourished in Constantinople as both aesthetic and functional objects serving the whole range of Byzantine society. As Christian art...

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