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Author | : Paroma Chatterjee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2014-03-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107034965 |
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Explores the development and diffusion of the vita image which emerged in Byzantium in the twelfth century and spread to Italy and beyond.
Author | : Paroma Chatterjee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2014-03-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107782961 |
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This is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the magnified portrait of a saint framed by scenes from his or her life. The vita icon was used for depicting the most popular figures in the Orthodox calendar and, in the Latin West, was deployed most vigorously in the service of Francis of Assisi. This book offers a compelling account of how this type of image embodied and challenged the prevailing structures of vision, representation and sanctity in Byzantium and among the Franciscans in Italy between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Paroma Chatterjee uncovers the complexities of the philosophical and theological issues that had long engaged both the medieval East and West, such as the fraught relations between words and images, relics and icons, a representation and its subject, and the very nature of holy presence.
Author | : Bissera V. Pentcheva |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Pentcheva demonstrates that a fundamental shift in the Byzantine cult from relics to icons, took place during the late tenth century. Centered upon fundamental questions of art, religion, and politics, Icons and Power makes a vital contribution to the entire field of medieval studies.
Author | : Paroma Chatterjee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Christian hagiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Maguire |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2000-05-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691050074 |
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The Byzantines surrounded themselves with their saints, invisible but constant companions, who were made visible by dreams, visions, and art. The composition and presentation of this imagined gallery followed a logical structure, a construct that was itself a collective work of art created by Byzantine society. The purpose of this book is to analyze the logic of the saint's image in Byzantium, both in portraits and in narrative scenes. Here Henry Maguire argues that the Byzantines gave to their images differing formal characteristics of movement, modeling, depth, and differentiation, according to the tasks that the icons were called upon to perform in the all-important business of communication between the visible and the invisible worlds. The book draws extensively on sources that have been relatively little utilized by art historians. It considers both domestic and ecclesiastical artifacts, showing how the former raised the problem of access by lay men and women to the supernatural and fueled the debates concerning the role of images in the Christian cult. Special attention is paid to the poems inscribed by the Byzantines upon their icons, and to the written lives of their saints, texts that offer the most direct and vivid insight into the everyday experience of art in Byzantium. The overall purpose of the book is to provide a new view of Byzantine art, one that integrates formal analysis with both theology and social history.
Author | : Gary Vikan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Icons, Byzantine |
ISBN | : |
Download Icons and Icon Piety in Early Byzantium Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Paroma Chatterjee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108988334 |
Download Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Olʹga Sigismundovna Popova |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Christian art and symbolism |
ISBN | : 9780952253815 |
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Author | : Mike Humphreys |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2021-09-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9004462007 |
Download A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Twelve scholars contextualize and critically examine the key debates about the controversy over icons and their veneration that would fundamentally shape Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity.
Author | : Bissera V |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271035846 |
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"Explores the Byzantine aesthetic of fugitive appearances by placing and filming art objects in spaces of changing light, and by uncovering the shifting appearances expressed in poetry, descriptions of art, and liturgical performance"--Provided by publisher.