Special Lecture | Forgotten Symbols of God

Event time: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 - 1:30pm
Location: 
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle - N100 (Great Hall) See map
409 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 
 

“Forgotten Symbols of God” 

Screening, Weaving, and Binding Patterns from the Early Christian World

Henry Maguire and Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Johns Hopkins University


Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Curator of the Archaeological Collection and Senior Lecturer in Art History at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt (1999) and, with Henry Maguire, the coauthor of Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House (1989).

Henry Maguire, Professor Emeritus in the History of Art Department of Johns Hopkins University, and a noted expert on Byzantine and medieval art, was the Director of Studies in the Byzantine Studies Program at Dumbarton Oaks (1991–1996). He is the author of Art and Eloquence in Byzantium (1981) and The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium (1996).