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Zusatztext 'Students and scholars with an interest in pan-Mediterranean and cross-cultural art historical issues will find this book to be interesting and informative. With its contributions to areas of research so profoundly enriched by Carr's work throughout her long career! this festschrift serves as fitting tribute to a deeply admired scholar.' Hortulus 'Byzantine Images and their Afterlives is an impressive tribute to Annemarie Wey Carr's scholarship! mentorship! and friendship. This handsome volume! together with many of Carr's publications! will find a welcome spot on this reviewer's bookshelf.' Medieval Review Informationen zum Autor Lynn Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Florida State University, Talahassee, USA, She is the author of Between Islam and Byzantium (2007). Klappentext The twelve papers written for this volume reflect the wide scope of Annemarie Weyl Carr's interests and the equally wide impact of her career. They are linked by Carr's expansive body of work, which ties together issues of patronage, production and influence across the medieval Mediterranean. The volume examines influences in manuscript production and reception, imperial patronage, relics and reliquaries, form and style in Cypriot architecture and icons, and the relationship between original and copy in medieval art. Zusammenfassung The twelve papers written for this volume reflect the wide scope of Annemarie Weyl Carr's interests and the equally wide impact of her career. They are linked by Carr's expansive body of work, which ties together issues of patronage, production and influence across the medieval Mediterranean. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Introduction: the collegial life of Annemarie Weyl Carr, Bonnie Wheeler. Part I Manuscripts: Workshops, Subgroups and Influences: The afterlife of texts: decorative style manuscripts and New Testament textual criticism, Kathleen Maxwell; Flexibility and fusion in Eastern Mediterranean manuscript production: Oxford, Bodleian, Laud. Gr. 86, Justine M. Andrews; The little Jewish boy: afterlife of a Byzantine legend in 13th-century Spain, Pamela A. Patton. Part II Intent and Reception: The stamp of power: the life and afterlife of Pulcheria’s Buildings, Diliana Angelova; Perceptions of Byzantium: Radegund of Poitiers and relics of the True Cross, Lynn Jones; Afterlife of the Rhodes Hand of St John the Baptist, Ida Sinkevi. Part III Cypriot Influences: Some remarks on the appropriation, use, and survival of Gothic forms on Cyprus, Michele Bacci; Byzantine icon-painting around 1400: Constantinople or Crete?, Maria Vassilaki. Part IV The Nature of Copies: The use of çintamani as ornament: a case study in the afterlife of forms, Jaroslav Folda; Twice is not enough: the biography of a ’Byzantine’ Crucifixion ivory, Anthony Cutler; The salvation of the soul and the road to Heaven: the representation of the Ladder of Divine Ascent in the Vatopedi Katholikon, Rossitza B. Schroeder; Death and life: the persistence of sacred imagery from the Croce Dipinta of Albert Sotio, Ann Driscoll. Publications of Annemarie Weyl Carr; Index....
