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International authors from prominent researchers to emerging scholars offer an up-to-date synthesis of scholarship on Byzantine art and visual culture. This is a remarkable resource to guide readers through past and current research in this most fertile of fields.
Sommario
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Artifice of Eternity
- Ellen C. Schwartz
- PART ONE: APPROACHING BYZANTINE ART
- 1. The Origin of Icons
- Thomas F. Mathews
- 2. Byzantine Art and Perception
- Bissera V. Pentcheva
- 3. Spolia in Byzantine Art and Architecture
- Bente Kiilerich
- 4. The Icon
- Rebecca W. Corrie
- 5. Iconoclasm
- Leslie Brubaker
- 6. Magic and Byzantine Art
- Jacquelyn Tuerk-Stonberg
- 7. Bodily Adornment and Modification in Byzantium
- Alicia Walker
- 8. Secular Art
- Maria G. Parani
- 9. The Imperial Arts
- Benjamin Anderson
- 10. Private Collecting and the Art Market for Byzantine Artifacts
- Christian Schmidt
- 11. The Byzantine Arts and Byzantine Literature
- Henry Maguire
- PART TWO: RECEPTION OF BYZANTINE ART AND ARCHITECTURE
- Neighbors to the East and South
- 12. Armenia
- Christina Maranci
- 13. Georgia
- Zaza Skhirtladze
- 14. Islamic States and the Middle East
- Erica Cruikshank Dodd
- Looking Westward
- 15. Italy, the Crusader States, and Cyprus
- Maria Georgopoulou
- 16. South Slavic Lands
- Ljubomir Milanovi¿
- After the Fall
- 17. "Byzance apre`s Byzance" and "Post-Byzantine" Art from the Late Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century
- Henry D. Schilb
- 18. The Byzantine Revival in Europe
- J. B. Bullen
- PART THREE: THE REALIA OF BYZANTINE ART
- Archaeology
- 19. Archaeology: Sites and Approaches
- Eric A. Ivison
- Architecture
- 20. Religious Architecture
- Marina Mihaljevi¿
- 21. Devotional Practices and the Development of the Byzantine Church
- Nebojša Stankovi¿
- 22. Secular Architecture: Domestic
- Carolyn S. Snively
- 23. Secular Architecture: Military
- Stavros I. Arvanitopoulos
- 24. Acceptance and Adaptation of Byzantine Architectural Types in the "Byzantine Commonwealth"
- Mark J. Johnson
- Decoration of Structures/Byzantine Wall Decoration
- 25. Mosaics
- Liz James
- 26. Monumental Painting: Pre-Iconoclasm
- Elizabeth S. Bolman
- 27. Monumental Painting: Post-Iconoclasm
- Sharon E. J. Gerstel
- 28. Stone Sculpture
- Sarah T. Brooks
- Portable Media
- 29. Illuminated Manuscripts: Religious
- Susan Madigan McCombs
- 30. Illuminated Manuscripts: Secular
- Christine Havice
- 31. Liturgical Objects
- Holger A. Klein
- 32. Bronze and Copper Icons
- Ellen C. Schwartz
- 33. Amulets, Crosses, and Reliquaries
- Brigitte Pitarakis
- 34. Ivories and Steatites
- Carolyn L. Connor
- 35. Ceramics
- Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi
- 36. Glass
- Anastassios Antonaras
- 37. Jewelry and Enamels
- Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie
- 38. Textile Media
- Warren T. Woodfin
- Index
Info autore
Ellen C. Schwartz is Professor of Art History Emerita at Eastern Michigan University, School of Art & Design.
Riassunto
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.
Testo aggiuntivo
The editor and authors of The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture should be quite proud of their achievement in fulfilling a need within scholarship with such a superb volume.
