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Book Pre Iconoclastic Byzantine Art and the Fieschi Oppenheim Morgan Reliquary of the True Cross

Download or read book Pre Iconoclastic Byzantine Art and the Fieschi Oppenheim Morgan Reliquary of the True Cross written by Stuart Wilensky and published by Stuart Wilensky. This book was released on 1983 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-Iconoclastic Byzantine Art and the Fieschi-Oppenheim-Morgan Reliquary of the True Cross

Book Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome

Download or read book Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome written by Annie Montgomery Labatt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome examines the development of Christian iconographies that had not yet established themselves as canonical images, but which were being tried out in various ways in early Christian Rome. This book focuses on four different iconographical forms that appeared in Rome during the eighth and ninth centuries: the Anastasis, the Transfiguration, the Maria Regina, and the Sickness of Hezekiah—all of which were labeled “Byzantine” by major mid-twentieth century scholars. The trend has been to readily accede to the pronouncements of those prominent authors, subjugating these rich images to a grand narrative that privileges the East and turns Rome into an artistic backwater. In this study, Annie Montgomery Labatt reacts against traditional scholarship which presents Rome as merely an adjunct of the East. It studies medieval images with formal and stylistic analyses in combination with use of the writings of the patristics and early medieval thinkers. The experimentation and innovation in the Christian iconographies of Rome in the eighth and ninth centuries provides an affirmation of the artistic vibrancy of Rome in the period before a divided East and West. Labatt revisits and revives a lost and forgotten Rome—not as a peripheral adjunct of the East, but as a center of creativity and artistic innovation.

Book The Virtual Liturgy and Ritual Artifacts in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Download or read book The Virtual Liturgy and Ritual Artifacts in Medieval and Early Modern Studies written by Katharine D. Scherff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal the evolution and function of these ritual objects. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book uses traditional art-historical methodologies and media technology theory to reexamine ritual objects. Previous analysis has not considered the in-between nature of these objects as deliberate and virtual conduits to the divine. The liturgy, the altarpiece, the altar environment, relics, and their reliquaries are media. In a series of case studies, several objects tell a different story about culture and society in medieval Europe. In essence, they reveal that media and media technologies generate and modulate the individual and collective structure of feelings of sacredness among assemblages of humans and nonhumans. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, early modern studies, and architectural history.

Book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art  New York

Download or read book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Master s Theses in the Arts and Social Sciences

Download or read book Master s Theses in the Arts and Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications

Download or read book Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Byzantinische Forschungen

Download or read book Byzantinische Forschungen written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era  ca 680   850   The Sources

Download or read book Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era ca 680 850 The Sources written by Leslie Brubaker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era is the first book in English to survey the original sources crucial for a modern understanding of this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history. It is also the first book in any language to cover both the written and the visual evidence from this period, a combination of particular importance to the iconoclasm debate. The authors, an art historian and a historian who both specialise in the period, have worked together to provide a comprehensive overview of the visual and the written materials that together help clarify the complex issues of iconoclasm in Byzantium.

Book Understanding Different Geographies

Download or read book Understanding Different Geographies written by Karel Kriz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects revised versions of papers first delivered at the “Understanding Different Geographies Symposium” held in Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria in 2011. The Symposium focussed on “Communicating Meaning with [Geo]Graphic Artefacts”. The general topics of the chapters cover: - Exploring geographic knowledge - Maps in exhibition spaces - Information and exhibition design with (geo)graphic artefacts - Extracting meaning from visualisations of different geographies - Deconstructing maps of information - and other spaces

Book Byzantium in the Ninth Century  Dead or Alive

Download or read book Byzantium in the Ninth Century Dead or Alive written by Leslie Brubaker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9th-century Byzantium has always been viewed as a mid-point between Iconoclasm and the so-called Macedonian revival; in scholarly terms it is often treated as a ’dead’ century. The object of these papers is to question such an assumption. They present a picture of political and military developments, legal and literary innovations, artisanal production, and religious and liturgical changes from the Anatolian plateau to the Greek-speaking areas of Italy that are only now gradually emerging as distinct. Investigation of how the 9th-century Byzantine world was perceived by outsiders also reveals much about Byzantine success and failure in promoting particular views of itself. The chapters here, by an international group of scholars, embody current research in this field; they recover many lost aspects of 9th-century Byzantium and shed new light on the Mediterranean world in a transitional century. The papers in this volume derive from the 30th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham in March 1996.

Book Anastasis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna D. Kartsonis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780691040394
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Anastasis written by Anna D. Kartsonis and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Anastasis: The Making of an Image, will be forthcoming.

Book Crusader Art

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  • Author : Jaroslav Folda
  • Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Crusader Art written by Jaroslav Folda and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work tells the story of Crusader art, focusing on the full range of Crusader painting (manuscript illumination, frescos, mosaics and icon painting) as providing the most significant continuous surviving evidence for the development of Crusader art.

Book Christ the Conqueror of Hell

Download or read book Christ the Conqueror of Hell written by Ilarion (Hieromonk.) and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study on the realm of death presents a message of hope held by the first generation of Christians and the early church. Using Scripture, patristic tradition, early Christian poetry, and liturgical texts, Archbishop Hilarion explores the mysterious and enigmatic event of Christ⿿s descent into Hades and its consequences for the human race. Insisting that Christ entered Sheol as Conqueror and not as victim, the author depicts the Lord⿿s descent as an event of cosmic significance opening the path to universal salvation. He also reveals Hades as a place of divine presence, a place where the spiritual fate of a person may still change. Reminding readers that self-will remains the only hindrance to life in Christ, he presents the gospel message anew, even in the shadow of death.

Book East Christian Paintings in the Freer Collection

Download or read book East Christian Paintings in the Freer Collection written by Charles Rufus Morey and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Depicting the Word

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  • Author : Kenneth Parry
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9789004105027
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Depicting the Word written by Kenneth Parry and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the sources of Byzantine iconophile thought as exemplified in the writings of John of Damascus, Theodore the Studite and the Patriarch Nikephoros. It provides an extensive analysis of the major themes addressed by these apologists of Christian images.

Book Byzantine Religious Architecture  582 867

Download or read book Byzantine Religious Architecture 582 867 written by Vincenzo Ruggieri and published by Edizioni Orientalia Christiana. This book was released on 1991 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literacy and Power in the Ancient World

Download or read book Literacy and Power in the Ancient World written by Alan K. Bowman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider contexts of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing on society.