Author : Ivan Drpić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107151511
Using epigrammatic poetry as a framework, investigates the interplay between art and religious devotion in the later Byzantine period.
Author : Ivan Drpić
Publisher :
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2011
Category :
ISBN :
In Byzantine usage, the term "epigram" denotes either a verse inscription written on an object or a poem accompanying a piece of literature. Whether preserved in situ , on artifacts and buildings, or transmitted in manuscript anthologies, epigrams constitute a tremendously rich yet largely untapped resource for exploring virtually every aspect of Byzantium's artistic culture. Taking as its focus the realm of personal piety and artistic patronage associated with it, this dissertation explores the multifaceted relationship between art and epigrammatic poetry in later Byzantium, the period from around 1100 to around 1450. Grounded in close readings of this period's epigrams and other related sources, and a detailed examination of an array of works--icons and icon revetments, reliquaries, ecclesiastical textiles, and others--my inquiry elucidates a set of broader aesthetic attitudes and devotional concerns that informed the patronage, production, and reception of art in later Byzantine society, notably among the elite. The dissertation is structured around several topics: the vogue for epigrams, poetic self-reference, and the formation of a distinctly logos -centered discourse on art; the significance of the concept of kosmos , or adornment, and its place in later Byzantine visual and literary aesthetics; the notion of art as gift and the epigrammatic negotiations of religious donation and spiritual exchange; the erotics of devotion and icon veneration as they are articulated in the epigrammatic figurations of pothos , or desire; and the intersection of personal piety and elite self-representation in the context of patronage. By scrutinizing a vast corpus of neglected and often untranslated and misinterpreted texts, this study aims to refine and deepen our understanding of the aesthetic, social, and religious dimensions of art-making in the last centuries of Byzantium.
Author : Foteini Spingou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1683 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108643906
In this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries. The first part uncovers salient aspects of Byzantine artistic production and its aesthetic reception, while the second puts a spotlight on particular ways of expressing admiration and of interpreting of the visual.
Author : Andrea Mattiello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1351244817
Late Byzantium Reconsidered offers a unique collection of essays analysing the artistic achievements of Mediterranean centres linked to the Byzantine Empire between 1261, when the Palaiologan dynasty re-conquered Constantinople, and the decades after 1453, when the Ottomans took the city, marking the end of the Empire. These centuries were characterised by the rising of socio-political elites, in regions such as Crete, Italy, Laconia, Serbia, and Trebizond, that, while sharing cultural and artistic values influenced by the Byzantine Empire, were also developing innovative and original visual and cultural standards. The comparative and interdisciplinary framework offered by this volume aims to challenge established ideas concerning the late Byzantine period such as decline, renewal, and innovation. By examining specific case studies of cultural production from within and outside Byzantium, the chapters in this volume highlight the intrinsic innovative nature of the socio-cultural identities active in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean vis-à-vis the rhetorical assumption of the cultural contraction of the Byzantine Empire.
Author : Donal Cooper
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2022-11-29
Category :
ISBN : 178327090X
Joanna Cannon's scholarship and teaching have helped shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art; this essay collection by her former students is a tribute to her work.
Author : Ellen C. Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0190277351
"This handbook offers a wide-ranging introduction to the richness and diversity of the arts in the Byzantine world. It includes thirty-eight essays by international authors, from prominent researchers to emerging scholars, on various issues and media. Discussions consider art created for religious purposes, to enhance and beautify the Orthodox liturgy and worship space, as well as art made to serve in royal and domestic contexts. While Byzantium is defined as the years 330-1453 CE, some chapters treat the aftermath and influence of Byzantine art on later periods. Arts covered include buildings and objects from the Eastern Mediterranean region, including the Balkans, Russia, North Africa, and the Near East. The volume brings together object-based considerations of themes and monuments which form the backbone of art history, with considerations drawing on many different methodologies-sociology, semiotics, anthropology, archaeology, reception theory, deconstruction theory, among others-all in an up-to-date synthesis of scholarship on Byzantine art and architecture. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture is a comprehensive overview of a rich field of study, offering a window into the world of this distinct and fascinating period of art"--
Author : Paroma Chatterjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108988334
Up to its pillage by the Crusaders in 1204, Constantinople teemed with magnificent statues of emperors, pagan gods, and mythical beasts. Yet the significance of this wealth of public sculpture has hardly been acknowledged beyond late antiquity. In this book, Paroma Chatterjee offers a new perspective on the topic, arguing that pagan statues were an integral part of Byzantine visual culture. Examining the evidence in patriographies, chronicles, novels, and epigrams, she demonstrates that the statues were admired for three specific qualities - longevity, mimesis, and prophecy; attributes that rendered them outside of imperial control and endowed them with an enduring charisma sometimes rivaling that of holy icons. Chatterjee's interpretations refine our conceptions of imperial imagery, the Hippodrome, the Macedonian Renaissance, a corpus of secular objects, and Orthodox icons. Her book offers novel insights into Iconoclasm and proposes a more truncated trajectory of the holy icon in medieval Orthodoxy than has been previously acknowledged.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004699686
The late Byzantine period (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) was marked by both cultural fecundity and political fragmentation, resulting in an astonishingly multifaceted literary output. This book addresses the poetry of the empire’s final quarter-millennium from a broad perspective, bringing together studies on texts originating in places from Crete to Constantinople and from court to school, treating topics from humanist antiquarianism to pious self-help, and written in styles from the vernacular to Homeric language. It thus offers a reference work to a much-neglected but rich textual material that is as varied as it was potent in the sociocultural contexts of its times. Contributors are Theodora Antonopoulou, Marina Bazzani, Julián Bértola, Martin Hinterberger, Krystina Kubina, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Florin Leonte, Ugo Mondini, Brendan Osswald, Giulia M. Paoletti, Cosimo Paravano, Daniil Pleshak, Alberto Ravani, and Federica Scognamiglio.
Author : Mati Meyer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1040043453
This Handbook is the first to consider the interrelated subjects of gender and sexuality in the Eastern Roman Empire from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on both modern theories and Byzantine perceptions, and considering multiple periods and religions (Eastern Orthodox, Islamic, and Jewish), it provides evidentiary textual and visual material support for an analysis of the two linked themes. Broadly, the essays demonstrate that gender and sexual constructs in Byzantium were porous. As a result, they expand our knowledge of not only how sex and gender were conceived and performed but also how ideas and practices shaped Byzantine life. The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Byzantium will be an indispensable guide for students and scholars of late antique and Byzantine religion, history, culture, and art, who will find it a useful critical survey of current scholarship and one that shines new light in their areas of research. The focus on issues of gender and sexuality may also be of interest to individuals concerned with Eastern Mediterranean culture, as well as to the broader public. Chapter 21 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Fotini Kondyli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108985416
Late Byzantium faced economic, political, and demographic crises. This book argues for the ability of rural communities to transform their socioeconomic strategies and maintain resilience in the face of these, especially in the context of islands. It seeks to reinstate ordinary people in the historical narrative and reintroduce them as active participants in the events of the period, pointing to their ability not only to react to change, but also to initiate it. Combining new archaeological evidence with archival material pertaining to the islands of Lemnos and Thasos in the Northern Aegean, it provides concrete examples of Byzantine socio-economic strategies that successfully mitigated the various crises and thus contributes to a diachronic perspective on crisis management. The result is to rethink the nature of the Late Byzantine period, and to question the ways in which we have come to divide historical periods into 'good' or 'bad'.
