Byzantine Figural Processional Crosses

John Cotsonis

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ISBN 9780884022282

Publication: January 1995

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124 pages

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Scarcely any object was as ubiquitous in Byzantine culture as the cross. This exhibition catalogue focuses on the figural processional cross, and the examples here provide opportunity to consider the various functions such crosses served in the imperial, ecclesiastic, military, and private sphere for both men and women.

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