Otto Demus

Austrian scholar

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study of Byzantine mosaic art

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    In mosaic: Middle Byzantine mosaics

    The 20th-century Austrian scholar Otto Demus, in studies on the aesthetics of middle Byzantine mosaic art, coined the term space icons for this kind of imagery, in which the forms of architecture collaborate to make the solemnly stylized figures appear with unexpected tactility. As shown by Demus, the spatial…

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