Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome - A Laboratory of Images in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries

This study focuses on four different iconographical forms that appeared in Rome during the eighth and ninth centuries. The author analyzes the experimentation and innovation of Christian iconographies and the artistic vibrancy of early medieval Rome before it became divided between East and West.

List of contents

Chapter One: The Anastasis
Chapter Two: The Transfiguration
Chapter Three: The Maria Regina
Chapter Four: The Sickness of Hezekiah and its Ensemble
Chapter Five: Contexts and Continuities

About the author

By Annie Montgomery Labatt

Summary

This study focuses on four different iconographical forms that appeared in Rome during the eighth and ninth centuries. The author analyzes the experimentation and innovation of Christian iconographies and the artistic vibrancy of early medieval Rome before it became divided between East and West.

Product details

• Authors: Annie Labatt, Annie Montgomery Labatt
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781498571159
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7115-9
• No. of pages: 366
• Series: Byzantium: A European Empire a; Byzantium: A European Empire and Its Legacy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Europe, European History, ART / European, Medieval History, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval