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Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome - A Laboratory of Images in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (Paperback)
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Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome - A Laboratory of Images in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (Paperback)
Series: Byzantium: A European Empire and Its Legacy
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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.
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