Nectar and Illusion

• Richly illustrated with a 16-page color insert and 73 black and white halftones
• Provides the first book-length study of the role of nature in Byzantine art
• Puts forth a new interpretation of iconoclasm that considers nature-derived imagery as well as portrait icons

Readership: Scholars and graduate students of art history, religious history, and Byzantine studies.

Henry Maguire, Emeritus Professor of Art, Johns Hopkins University

Henry Maguire is Emeritus Professor of Art at Johns Hopkins University.

"Henry Maguire traces the complex rise and fall of Byzantine portrayals of the natural world in his beautiful Nectar and Illusion, which averages an illustration for every other page of text" - Lydia Wilson, Times Literary Supplement

List of Illustrations
Introduction
I. Nature and Idolatry
II. Nature and Rhetoric
III. Nature and Metaphor
IV. Nature and Abstraction
V. Nature and Architecture
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index