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Beholding the sacred mysteries : programs of the Byzantine sanctuary

Sharon Gerstel evokes a wide range of written and painted sources in order to analyze the decoration of the Byzantine sanctuary from the perspective of its contemporary viewer, from monk to liturgical celebrant, from bishop to lay worshipper. In a new presentation of the sanctuary program, the author reveals to the modern reader what was and is manifest only to the clergy

Print Book, English, 1999
College Art Association in association with Universary of Washington Press, Seattle, 1999