Byzantium and Its Image
Author: Cyril A. Mango
Publisher: Variorum Publishing
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cyril A. Mango
Publisher: Variorum Publishing
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cyril A. Mango
Publisher: Variorum Publishing
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 368
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2002-10-24
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0191500828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fifteenth century. The authors - all working at the cutting edge of their particular fields - outline the political history of the Byzantine state and bring to life the evolution of a colourful culture. In AD 324, the Emperor Constantine the Great chose Byzantion, an ancient Greek colony at the mouth of the Thracian Bosphorous, as his imperial residence. He renamed the place 'Constaninopolis nova Roma', 'Constantinople, the new Rome' and the city (modern Istanbul) became the Eastern capital of the later Roman empire. The new Rome outlived the old and Constantine's successors continued to regard themselves as the legitimate emperors of Rome, just as their subjects called themselves Romaioi, or Romans long after they had forgotten the Latin language. In the sixteenth century, Western humanists gave this eastern Roman empire ruled from Constantinople the epithet 'Byzantine'. Against a backdrop of stories of emperors, intrigues, battles, and bishops, this Oxford History uncovers the hidden mechanisms - economic, social, and demographic - that underlay the history of events. The authors explore everyday life in cities and villages, manufacture and trade, machinery of government, the church as an instrument of state, minorities, education, literary activity, beliefs and superstitions, monasticism, iconoclasm, the rise of Islam, and the fusion with Western, or Latin, culture. Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy.
Author: Paroma Chatterjee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-17
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1107782961
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the magnified portrait of a saint framed by scenes from his or her life. The vita icon was used for depicting the most popular figures in the Orthodox calendar and, in the Latin West, was deployed most vigorously in the service of Francis of Assisi. This book offers a compelling account of how this type of image embodied and challenged the prevailing structures of vision, representation and sanctity in Byzantium and among the Franciscans in Italy between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Paroma Chatterjee uncovers the complexities of the philosophical and theological issues that had long engaged both the medieval East and West, such as the fraught relations between words and images, relics and icons, a representation and its subject, and the very nature of holy presence.
Author: Angeliki E. Laiou
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780884022152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These seven chapters, originally given as lectures honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks, cover a wide range of topics, from the relationship of Byzantium with its Islamic, Slavic, and Western European neighbors to the modern reception of Byzantine art.
Author: Anthony Cutler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 100094297X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Relations between Byzantium and its neighbours are the focus of this volume. The papers address questions of cultural exchange, with special attention to art historical relations as shown by technical, iconographic and diplomatic exchanges. While addressed to specialists, both their approach and the language make these papers accessible to students at all levels.
Author: Henry Maguire
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1000949893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The twelve studies contained in this second collection by Henry Maguire are linked together by a common theme, namely the relationship of Byzantine art to the imaginary. They show how art enabled the Byzantines not only to imagine the sacred events of the past, but also to visualize the invisible present by manifesting the spiritual world that they could not see. The articles are grouped around the following five topics: the depiction of nature by the Byzantines before and after iconoclasm, especially in portrayals of the earthly and the spiritual Paradise; the social functions and theological significance of classical artistic forms in Byzantine art after iconoclasm; the association between rhetoric and the visual arts in Byzantium, especially in contrast to the role played by liturgical drama in western medieval art; the relationship of the visual arts to Byzantine concepts of justice and the law, both human and divine; and portrayals of the two Byzantine courts, the imperial court on earth and the imagined court in heaven. The papers cover a wide range of media, including floor and wall mosaics, paintings in manuscripts and churches, ivory carvings, coins, and enamel work.
Author: Maria G. Parani
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9789004124622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Robin Cormack
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780754635499
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All the essays that comprise this work were written by students of Robin Cormack. They focus upon Byzantine icons and images but consider these artefacts in a way that will promote a very different approach to the study of Byzantine art.
Author: Irfan Shahîd
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780884021520
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