Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium: Perceptions and Representations in Art and Text

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 The Byzantine Ideal of Beauty: Definitions and Perceptions......Page 18
A Byzantine ideal of beauty......Page 19
The real and the ideal: Beauty between fact and fiction......Page 25
Gender, the image and the mask of beauty......Page 35
On the beauty of men......Page 40
2 Only Skin-Deep: Beauty and Ugliness between Good and Evil......Page 44
The varied face of ugliness......Page 45
Handsome heroes, ugly villains and other half-truths......Page 50
The handsome executioner......Page 53
Beauty is as beauty does?......Page 57
Beauty as a force of action......Page 60
The beautiful body as statue......Page 63
The beauty of harmony and symmetry......Page 69
4 The Beauty of Broken Bodies: Pain, Eloquence and Emotion......Page 77
The beauty of the dead Christ......Page 78
Painting the unsayable......Page 84
Beauty and the horror of death......Page 86
The beauty of images, rhetoric and the power of emotion......Page 89
The angel\'s body between word and image......Page 97
\'Beautiful, blond and resembling the eunuchs of the palace\'......Page 104
The angel and the Adam\'s apple......Page 107
The beauty of \'eternal springtime\'......Page 111
Beauty and the captivated gaze......Page 117
Beautiful soldiers on display......Page 183
Between Ares and Eros: Dangerous beauty and the soldier\'s fragile masculinity......Page 191
The unkempt beauty of military masculinity......Page 198
Photo Section......Page 127
Conclusion......Page 203
Notes......Page 206
List of Illustrations......Page 239
Bibliography......Page 242
Illustration Sources......Page 257
B......Page 258
E......Page 259
L......Page 260
R......Page 261
U......Page 262
Z......Page 263