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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400
With over 200 color illustrations, Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads
examines in detail the eclectic iconography of the Byzantine period
and its impact on design and creativity today. Through an
examination of the extraordinary variety of designs in these
captivating silks, an international team of experts reveal that
Byzantine culture was ever-moving and open to diverse influences
across the length of the Silk Road. Commentaries from curators at
key collections - including the Museum of Arts, Boston, the
Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt), the V&A and the Vatican - reveal
the spread of silk embroidery and designs from East to West, and
from West to East, from China to Rome, and from Constantinople to
Korea. Drawing on exclusive imagery from worldwide collections
within museums, churches and archives as case studies, their
analysis of these unique woven silks explores the relationship
between color and power, material culture and status, and offers
broader insight into Byzantine culture, trade, society and
ceremony. Byzantine Silk ... takes us on a journey from the past to
the present, too, where Byzantine story-telling and image-making is
revisited, through color, imagery and pattern, in contemporary
fashion collections. Exploring Byzantine culture through a
contemporary filter, the book shows how the Byzantine era still
influences textile and fashion designers today in their choices of
materials and colors, and their utilization of images and patterns,
acting as a unique source of inspiration to designers and creators
in the 21st century.
Both an introduction to the great civilization of Byzantium and a 50th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Byzantine Centre at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, this collection of essays demonstrates the place of Byzantine civilization in world history and shows the role of Dumbarton Oaks in interpreting that civilization for what its founders called "an everchanging present".;The first essay, written by Milton Anastos - a scholar who first came to Dumbarton Oaks in 1941, one year after Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Bliss founded the Byzantine Cente - is devoted to the institution itself and to the role that it has played in Byzantine studies over the past 50 years. The following chapters, by Speros Vyronis, Dimitri Obolensky, Irfan Shahid, and Angeliki Laiou, discuss the relationship between Byzantium and its neighbouring civilizations of Islam, the Slavic countries, and Western Europe, and display the great legacy that Byzantium left to those cultures. Two final essays, by Gary Vikan and Henry Maguire, present Byzantine art, today the most prominent aspect of Byzantine achievements, and discuss its reception by modern critics and historians.
Two lavish, illustrated histories confronted and contested the
Byzantine model of empire. The Madrid Skylitzes was created at the
court of Roger II of Sicily in the mid-twelfth century. The Vatican
Manasses was produced for Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria in the
mid-fourteenth century. Through close analysis of how each
chronicle was methodically manipulated, this study argues that
Byzantine history was selectively re-imagined to suit the interests
of outsiders. The Madrid Skylitzes foregrounds regicides,
rebellions, and palace intrigue in order to subvert the divinely
ordained image of order that Byzantine rulers preferred to project.
The Vatican Manasses presents Byzantium as a platform for the
accession of Ivan Alexander to the throne of the Third Rome, the
last and final world-empire. Imagining the Byzantine Past
demonstrates how distinct visions of empire generated diverging
versions of Byzantium's past in the aftermath of the Crusades.
The latest British Archaeological Association transactions report
on the conference volumes at Beverley in 1983. Papers provide the
latest thoughts on topics at Beverley Minster and in the
surrounding area. Contributions include: Pre-Conquest Sculpture (J
Lang); pre-13th century Beverley (R Morris & E Cambridge); 12th
century sculpture from Bridlington (M Thurlby); Bridlington
Augustinian church and cloister in the 12th century (J A Franklin);
stained glass of Beverley Minster (D O'Connor); East Riding
sepulchal monuments (B & M Gittos); St Peter's Church, Howden
(N Coldstream); the Percy tomb workshop (N Dawton); architectural
development of Patrington Church (J Maddison); Beverley in
conflict: Archbishop Neville and the Minster Clergy, 1381-8 (R B
Dobson); monumental brasses in the 14th and 15th centuries (S
Badham); the misericords in Beveley Minster (C Grossinger).
This book addresses the status and relevance of iconography and
iconology in the contemporary scholarly study of medieval art.
There is a widespread tendency among art historians today to regard
the study of iconography and iconology in the tradition of Erwin
Panofsky as an outmoded and trivial pursuit. Nonetheless,
Panofsky's three-level interpretative model sits firmly in the
methodological toolkit of art history and remains a common point of
reference among adherents and adversaries alike. Iconography and
iconology demand to be taken seriously as a feature of continued
praxis in the discipline. The book contains a collection of essays
on the validity of various approaches toward the interpretation of
meaning in medieval art today. These essays either demonstrate the
continued usefulness of iconography and iconology as analytical
strategies, or propose alternative approaches to the investigation
of meaning in the art of the Middle Ages.
This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to
understand medieval and early modern art as products of their
social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and
established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic
similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text
analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric
Bouts's Justice of Otto III, Albrecht Durer's Feast of the Rose
Garland, Rembrandt van Rijn's Naked Woman Seated on a Mound, and
Renaissance-era transi tombs of French women to illuminate medieval
and early modern ideas about gender identity, poverty, religion,
honor, virtue, sexuality, and motherhood, among others.
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