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The bibliography lists literary works on problems of esthetics and esthetic education in Bulgaria and Russia. Publications up to the 30th June, 1962, are incorporated. The book is destined for cultural and scientific officials and library experts for their reference and cultural work.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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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 even today is manifest only to the clergy. In medieval Byzantium an artistic program developed behind the sanctuary screen for priests, whose actions and words were reflected in the painted decorations. Lay people were permitted to view certain parts of the painted program and the eucharistic celebration, but the sanctuary was increasingly obscured from ...