Wonderful things : Byzantium through its art : papers from the forty-second Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009

Parallelsachtitel: Byzantium through its art
Papers from the forty-second Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009
Körperschaft: Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies London, England)
Weitere Verfasser: Eastmond, Antony 1966- , [HerausgeberIn]
James, Liz , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, 2020.
Umfang/Format: xix, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) 16.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Byzantium through its art / Liz James and Antony Eastmond
  • Exhibiting Byzantium. Learning lessons: from the Mother of God to Byzantium 330–1453 / Maria Vassilaki
  • ‘Of what is past, or passing, or to come’ / Robin Cormack
  • Two scenes from the prehistory of the Byzantine blockbuster / John Hanson
  • Exhibiting Byzantium: Edinburgh 1958 and London 2008 / Rowena Loverance
  • Object lessons. Gospel decoration and its relation to artistic and doctrinal trends of the Middle-Byzantine period: a study with reference to the Marciana book covers / Niki J. Tsironis
  • The stepmum and the servant: the stepson and the sacred vessel / Cecily Hennessy
  • The Vienna ‘Empress’ ivory and its companion in Florence: crowned in different glories? / Eileen Rubery
  • Representing decline and fall: nineteenth-century responses to the Asclepius–Hygieia and Clementinus ivory diptychs / Helen Rufus Ward
  • The complexity of the iconography of the bilateral icon with the Virgin Hodegetria and the Man of Sorrows, Kastoria / Teodora Burnand
  • The last wonderful thing: the icon of the Heavenly Ladder on Mount Sinai / Elena Ene D-Vasilescu
  • The date of two icons from Sinai / Georgi R. Parpulov
  • The Nestorian discos in the light of Apocryphal texts and artefacts / Vera Zalesskaya
  • Byzantium through its art. From centre to periphery and beyond: the diffusion of models in Late Antique metalware / Anastasia Drandaki
  • Textiles as text / Anna Muthesius
  • Some thoughts on Greco-Venetian artistic interactions in the fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries / Michele Bacci
  • Women at tombs: narrative, theatricality, and the contemplative mode / Robert Ousterhout
  • Show and tell/ Leslie Brubaker
  • The idea of likeness in Byzantium / Anthony Cutler
  • Mary’s parents in homilies before and after James Kokkinobaphos / Eirini Panou
  • Constantine’s city: Constantine the Rhodian and the beauty of Constantinople / Marc D. Lauxtermann
  • Exhibiting Byzantium reviewed. Seeing Byzantium: a personal response / Averil Cameron.