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Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium (Paperback)
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Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium (Paperback)
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This book explores the nexus of art, personal piety, and
self-representation in the last centuries of Byzantium. Spanning
the period from around 1100 to around 1450, it focuses upon the
evidence of verse inscriptions, or epigrams, on works of art.
Epigrammatic poetry, Professor Drpic argues, constitutes a critical
- if largely neglected - source for reconstructing aesthetic and
socio-cultural discourses that informed the making, use, and
perception of art in the Byzantine world. Bringing together
art-historical and literary modes of analysis, the book examines
epigrams and other related texts alongside an array of objects,
including icons, reliquaries, ecclesiastical textiles, mosaics, and
entire church buildings. By attending to such diverse topics as
devotional self-fashioning, the aesthetics of adornment, sacred
giving, and the erotics of the icon, this study offers a
penetrating and highly original account of Byzantine art and its
place in Byzantine society and religious life.
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