Overview

Reflecting the diverse interests of Jean-Michel Spieser, his colleagues, students and friends contribute papers focused on topics ranging from the changing role of the apse and the layout of late antique basilicas to holy relics said to have been brought from Constantinople. Many of the articles address the nature and impact of specific media - goldsmiths' work, ivory and ceramics - while a group of highly original, broader studies is devoted to such larger issues as ritual display in the tenth century, the metaphorical significance of pottery and an interrogation of the supposed influence of Byzantine icons on Western medieval art. Throughout, the achievement of the authors is to move from concrete observations of particular objects to the larger meaning they held for those who commissioned and made use of them.

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Author:   Anthony Cutler ,  Arietta Papaconstantinou
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   70
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.663kg
ISBN:  

9789004162860

ISBN 10:   9004162860
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   17 December 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Anthony Cutler: The Material and the Ideal: An Introduction 2. Beat Brenk: Zur Apsis als Bildort 3. Arietta Papaconstantinou: Divine or Human? Some Remarks on the Design and Layout of Late Antique Basilicas 4. Etleva Nallbani: Urban and Rural Mortuary Practices in Early Medieval Illyricum. Some General Considerations 5. Brigitte Pitarakis: L'orfevre et l'architecte: Autour d'un groupe d'edifices constantinopolitains du VIe siecle 6. Jeffrey Featherstone: Di j e[ndeixin: Display in Court Ceremonial (De Cerimoniis II,15) 7. Anthony Cutler and Nancy Patterson Sevcenko: A Recently Discovered Ivory of St. Ignatios and the Lions 8. Ivana Jetvic: Le nouvel ordre du monde ou l'image du cosmos a Lesnovo 9. Sharon E. J. Gerstel: The Sacred Vessel and the Measure of a Man 10. Maria Parani: On the Personal Life of Objects in Medieval Byzantium 11. Veronique Francois: Des potiers de Nicee aux faienciers d'Iznik: tradition maintenue ou fausse continuite? 12. Elisabeth Yota: Un tetraevangile provincial d'origine syro-palestinienne: Florence, Bibliotheque Laurentienne Conv. Soppr. gr. 160 13. Jannic Durand: Une pretendue relique de Constantinople: la Veronique de Corbie 14. Jean Wirth: A propos des influencs byzantines sur l'art du Moyen Age occidental

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Anthony Cutler is the Evan Pugh Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania State University. He has published extensively on Late Antique and Byzantine art, with a special concentration on ivory carving. Arietta Papaconstantinou is currently Marie Curie Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University. She is the author of Le culte des saints en Egypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (CNRS, 2001) and of various articles on aspects of late antique and early Islamic social history and material culture.

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