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Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture - Statues in Constantinople, 4th-13th Centuries CE (Hardcover)
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Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture - Statues in Constantinople, 4th-13th Centuries CE (Hardcover)
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Up to its pillage by the Crusaders in 1204, Constantinople teemed
with magnificent statues of emperors, pagan gods, and mythical
beasts. Yet the significance of this wealth of public sculpture has
hardly been acknowledged beyond late antiquity. In this book,
Paroma Chatterjee offers a new perspective on the topic, arguing
that pagan statues were an integral part of Byzantine visual
culture. Examining the evidence in patriographies, chronicles,
novels, and epigrams, she demonstrates that the statues were
admired for three specific qualities - longevity, mimesis, and
prophecy; attributes that rendered them outside of imperial control
and endowed them with an enduring charisma sometimes rivaling that
of holy icons. Chatterjee's interpretations refine our conceptions
of imperial imagery, the Hippodrome, the Macedonian Renaissance, a
corpus of secular objects, and Orthodox icons. Her book offers
novel insights into Iconoclasm and proposes a more truncated
trajectory of the holy icon in medieval Orthodoxy than has been
previously acknowledged.
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