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Artisti eretici ed eterodossi a Bisanzio

2018

Abstract

The present papers shows that, against the popular view of the Byzantine artist as a pious artisan subjected to the authority of the Church, a number of Byzantine craftsmen sympathized for and were involved in heterodox religious behaviours and heretic movements. The paper includes examples from late Antiquity until the Middle- and Late Byzantine periods