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Visualizing Christ's Miracles in Late Byzantium

Art, Theology, and Court Culture
BuchGebunden
348 Seiten
Englisch
Cambridge University Presserschienen am27.06.2024
This book investigates the political and spiritual agenda behind monumental paintings of Christ's miracles in late Byzantine churches in Constantinople, Mystras, Thessaloniki, Mount Athos, Ohrid, and Kastoria. It is the first exhaustive examination of Christ's miracles in monumental decoration, offering a comparative and detailed analysis of their selection, grouping, and layout and redefining the significance of this diverse and unique iconography in the early Palaiologan period. Maria Alessia Rossi argues that these painted cycles were carefully and inventively crafted by the cultural milieu, secular and religious, surrounding Emperor Andronikos II (r. 1282-1328) at a time of ferment in the early Palaiologan era. Furthermore, by adopting an interdisciplinary approach, she demonstrates that the novel flowering of Christ's miracles in art was not an isolated phenomenon, but rather emerged as part of a larger surge in literary commissions, and reveals how miracles became a tool to rewrite history and promote Orthodoxy.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextThis book investigates the political and spiritual agenda behind monumental paintings of Christ's miracles in late Byzantine churches in Constantinople, Mystras, Thessaloniki, Mount Athos, Ohrid, and Kastoria. It is the first exhaustive examination of Christ's miracles in monumental decoration, offering a comparative and detailed analysis of their selection, grouping, and layout and redefining the significance of this diverse and unique iconography in the early Palaiologan period. Maria Alessia Rossi argues that these painted cycles were carefully and inventively crafted by the cultural milieu, secular and religious, surrounding Emperor Andronikos II (r. 1282-1328) at a time of ferment in the early Palaiologan era. Furthermore, by adopting an interdisciplinary approach, she demonstrates that the novel flowering of Christ's miracles in art was not an isolated phenomenon, but rather emerged as part of a larger surge in literary commissions, and reveals how miracles became a tool to rewrite history and promote Orthodoxy.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-009-38762-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum27.06.2024
Seiten348 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.13513845
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GenreKunst/Architektur

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments; List of figures; List of maps; List of drawings; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Ecclesiastical policies and the sociohistorical context of the early palaiologan period; 2. A wealth of sources: miracles in text and image; 3. Christ's miracles: selection and iconography; 4. Christ's miracles: grouping and setting; 5. Christ's miracle cycle in Byzantine churches; Conclusion; Tables A-E; Bibliography; Index.mehr

Autor

MARIA ALESSIA ROSSI is an Art History Specialist at the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. She has co-edited Late Byzantium Reconsidered: The Arts of the Palaiologan Era in the Mediterranean (2019), Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages (2020), and Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (2021). She is the cofounder of the initiative North of Byzantium and the digital platform Mapping Eastern Europe.