Past Event: Special Lecture | Forgotten Symbols of God

Copenhagen Mosaic screen

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Location: Sterling Divinity Quadrangle - N100 (Great Hall)
409 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511

Admission: Free

Open to: General Public

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).

Copenhagen Mosaic screen