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A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Byzantine art, providing an introduction to the whole period and range of styles.
Author : Robin Cormack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198778791
A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Byzantine art, providing an introduction to the whole period and range of styles.
Author : Cyril A. Mango
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,21 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780802066275
Originally published by Prentice-Hall, 1972.
Author : Ellen C. Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0197572200
Byzantine art has been an underappreciated field, often treated as an adjunct to the arts of the medieval West, if considered at all. In illustrating the richness and diversity of art in the Byzantine world, this handbook will help establish the subject as a distinct field worthy of serious inquiry. Essays consider Byzantine art as art made in the eastern Mediterranean world, including the Balkans, Russia, the Near East and north Africa, between the years 330 and 1453. Much of this art was made for religious purposes, created to enhance and beautify the Orthodox liturgy and worship space, as well as to serve in a royal or domestic context. Discussions in this volume will consider both aspects of this artistic creation, across a wide swath of geography and a long span of time. The volume marries older, object-based considerations of themes and monuments which form the backbone of art history, to considerations drawing on many different methodologies-sociology, semiotics, anthropology, archaeology, reception theory, deconstruction theory, and so on-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 particularly rich field of study, offering a window into the world of this fascinating and beautiful period of art.
Author : Cecily J. Hilsdale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107033306
Questions how political decline refigures the visual culture of empire by examining the imperial image and the gift in later Byzantium (1261-1453). Provides a more nuanced account of medieval artistic cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.
Author : John Lowden
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 1997-04-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780714831688
An authoritative account of early Christian and Byzantine art.
Author : Foteini Spingou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1683 pages
File Size : 44,94 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 : Maria G. Parani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004124622
This examination of realia in Byzantine religious painting provides valuable information on Byzantine dress, household effects and implements, while introducing at the same time an alternative, literally 'objective', approach to the study of the formative processes of Byzantine art.
Author : Elizabeth Jeffreys
Publisher :
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0199252467
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.
Author : Ernst Kitzinger
Publisher :
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Art, Byzantine.
ISBN :
Finds a correspondence between the evolution of stylistic forms in Early Christian art and the social, religious, and historical developments of the period.
Author : Roland Betancourt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 069117945X
"Intersectionality, a term coined in 1989, is rapidly increasing in importance within the academy, as well as in broader civic conversations. It describes the study of overlapping or intersecting social identities such as race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and sexual orientation alongside related systems of oppression, domination, and discrimination. Together, these frameworks are used to understand how systematic injustice or social inequality occurs. In this book, Roland Betancourt examines the presence of marginalized identities and intersectionality in the medieval era. He reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around matters of sexual and reproductive consent, bullying, non-monogamous marriages, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and non-binary gender identifications, representations of disability, and the oppression of minorities. In contrast to contemporary expectations of the medieval world, this book looks at these problems from the Byzantine Empire and its neighbors in the eastern mediterranean through sources ranging from late antiquity and early Christianity up to the early modern period. In each of five chapters, Betancourt provides short, carefully scaled narratives used to illuminate nuanced and surprising takes on now-familiar subjects by medieval thinkers and artists. For example, Betancourt examines depictions of sexual consent in images of the Virgin; the origins of sexual shaming and bullying in the story of Empress Theodora; early beginnings of trans history as told in the lives of saints who lived portions of their lives within different genders; and the ways in which medieval authors understood and depicted disabilities. Deeply researched, this is a groundbreaking new look at medieval culture for a new generation of scholars"--