Byzantine Painting

Author : Robin Cormack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191084478

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Byzantine Art by Robin Cormack Pdf

The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and public buildings. This complete introduction to the whole period and range of Byzantine art combines immense breadth with interesting historical detail. Robin Cormack overturns the myth that Byzantine art remained constant from the inauguration of Constantinople, its artistic centre, in the year 330 until the fall of the city to the Ottomans in 1453. He shows how the many political and religious upheavals of this period produced a wide range of styles and developments in art. This updated, colour edition includes new discoveries, a revised bibliography, and, in a new epilogue, a rethinking of Byzantine Art for the present day.

Author : Jaroslav Folda,Lucy J. Wrapson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107010239

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Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting by Jaroslav Folda,Lucy J. Wrapson Pdf

Jaroslav Folda traces the appropriation of the Byzantine Virgin and Child Hodegetria icon by thirteenth-century Crusader and central Italian painters and explores its transformation by the introduction of chrysography on the figure of the Virgin in the Crusader Levant and in Italy.

Author : Charles Bayet
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783103850

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Byzantine Art by Charles Bayet Pdf

For more than a millennium, from its creation in 330 CE until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was a cradle of artistic effervescence that is only beginning to be rediscovered. Endowed with the rich heritage of Roman, Eastern, and Christian cultures, Byzantine artists developed an architectural and pictorial tradition, marked by symbolism, whose influence extended far beyond the borders of the Empire. Today, Italy, North Africa, and the Near East preserve the vestiges of this sophisticated artistic tradition, with all of its mystical and luminous beauty. The magnificence of the palaces, churches, paintings, enamels, ceramics, and mosaics from this civilisation guarantees Byzantine art's powerful influence and timelessness.

Author : Cecily J. Hilsdale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107729384

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Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline by Cecily J. Hilsdale Pdf

The Late Byzantine period (1261–1453) is marked by a paradoxical discrepancy between economic weakness and cultural strength. The apparent enigma can be resolved by recognizing that later Byzantine diplomatic strategies, despite or because of diminishing political advantage, relied on an increasingly desirable cultural and artistic heritage. This book reassesses the role of the visual arts in this era by examining the imperial image and the gift as reconceived in the final two centuries of the Byzantine Empire. In particular it traces a series of luxury objects created specifically for diplomatic exchange with such courts as Genoa, Paris and Moscow alongside key examples of imperial imagery and ritual. By questioning how political decline refigured the visual culture of empire, Cecily J. Hilsdale offers a more nuanced and dynamic account of medieval cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.

Author : Ellen C. Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190277352

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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture by Ellen C. Schwartz Pdf

"This handbook offers a wide-ranging introduction to the richness and diversity of the arts in the Byzantine world. It includes thirty-eight essays by international authors, from prominent researchers to emerging scholars, on various issues and media. Discussions consider art created for religious purposes, to enhance and beautify the Orthodox liturgy and worship space, as well as art made to serve in royal and domestic contexts. While Byzantium is defined as the years 330-1453 CE, some chapters treat the aftermath and influence of Byzantine art on later periods. Arts covered include buildings and objects from the Eastern Mediterranean region, including the Balkans, Russia, North Africa, and the Near East. The volume brings together object-based considerations of themes and monuments which form the backbone of art history, with considerations drawing on many different methodologies-sociology, semiotics, anthropology, archaeology, reception theory, deconstruction theory, among others-all in an up-to-date synthesis of scholarship on Byzantine art and architecture. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture is a comprehensive overview of a rich field of study, offering a window into the world of this distinct and fascinating period of art"--

Author : George Kordis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936773716

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Color As Light in Byzantine Painting by George Kordis Pdf

This book records the many years of experience of George Kordis' use of egg tempera, which after many tests and research he combines with a specific type of sub-painting. It shows that this technique, which is a personal technological proposal, can be combined with the traditional Byzantine style, established for centuries in the Hellenic lands as the appropriate way for the rendering of Orthodox images.In the first chapters of the first part, the Byzantine painting system's visual autonomy is examined, with reference to the western naturalistic painting system and other contemporary artistic proposals. The foundation of the findings is attempted with an analysis of selected works of Byzantine and post-Byzantine painting. A detailed description of the egg tempera technique is given by sub-painting and evaluation based on its functionality in the Byzantine painting system.In the second part, the technique of egg tempera with sub-painting is presented on a laboratory level. More specifically, methods of preparation of the host (wood) are presented, gilding techniques, and mainly how landscapes, clothes, objects, faces, and compositions are painted with the technique of egg tempera with sub-painting. Also included are appendices from fresco paintings and icons painted with the method presented in the book.

Author : John Beckwith,Richard Krautheimer,Slobodan Ćurčić
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300052960

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Early Christian and Byzantine Art by John Beckwith,Richard Krautheimer,Slobodan Ćurčić Pdf

Focusing on mosaics, sculpture, paintings, jewelry, and silk, the author examines this artistic style as an expression of religious thought

Author : Ormonde Maddock Dalton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : PRNC:32101067643120

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Byzantine Art and Archaeology by Ormonde Maddock Dalton Pdf

Author : Nancy P. Sevcenko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000950670

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The Celebration of the Saints in Byzantine Art and Liturgy by Nancy P. Sevcenko Pdf

The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the 9th century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of saints through liturgical poetry and sequences of isolated images in fresco, icon painting and illuminated manuscripts. Others are concerned with the longer and rarer, narrative cycles devoted to the life of a single saint, cycles found mainly in fresco and on the so-called vita icons that first appear in the East in the late 12th century. Additional studies deal with the developing role of icons in liturgical ceremonies, and with images of a saint being approached by a supplicant or patron. A final section is devoted to places made holy by the saints, and to their holy relics.

Author : Henry Maguire
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000949896

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Image and Imagination in Byzantine Art by Henry Maguire Pdf

The twelve studies contained in this second collection by Henry Maguire are linked together by a common theme, namely the relationship of Byzantine art to the imaginary. They show how art enabled the Byzantines not only to imagine the sacred events of the past, but also to visualize the invisible present by manifesting the spiritual world that they could not see. The articles are grouped around the following five topics: the depiction of nature by the Byzantines before and after iconoclasm, especially in portrayals of the earthly and the spiritual Paradise; the social functions and theological significance of classical artistic forms in Byzantine art after iconoclasm; the association between rhetoric and the visual arts in Byzantium, especially in contrast to the role played by liturgical drama in western medieval art; the relationship of the visual arts to Byzantine concepts of justice and the law, both human and divine; and portrayals of the two Byzantine courts, the imperial court on earth and the imagined court in heaven. The papers cover a wide range of media, including floor and wall mosaics, paintings in manuscripts and churches, ivory carvings, coins, and enamel work.

Author : Angeliki Lymberopoulou,Rembrandt Duits
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351953863

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Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe by Angeliki Lymberopoulou,Rembrandt Duits Pdf

Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe discusses the cultural and artistic interaction between the Byzantine east and western Europe, from the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 to the flourishing of post-Byzantine artistic workshops on Venetian Crete during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the formation of icon collections in Renaissance Italy. The contributors examine the routes by which artistic interaction may have taken place, and explore the reception of Byzantine art in western Europe, analysing why artists and patrons were interested in ideas from the other side of the cultural and religious divide. In the first chapter, Lyn Rodley outlines the development of Byzantine art in the Palaiologan era and its relations with western culture. Hans Bloemsma then re-assesses the influence of Byzantine art on early Italian painting from the point of view of changing demands regarding religious images in Italy. In the first of two chapters on Venetian Crete, Angeliki Lymberopoulou evaluates the impact of the Venetian presence on the production of fresco decorations in regional Byzantine churches on the island. The next chapter, by Diana Newall, continues the exploration of Cretan art manufactured under the Venetians, shifting the focus to the bi-cultural society of the Cretan capital Candia and the rise of the post-Byzantine icon. Kim Woods then addresses the reception of Byzantine icons in western Europe in the late Middle Ages and their role as devotional objects in the Roman Catholic Church. Finally, Rembrandt Duits examines the status of Byzantine icons as collectors’ items in early Renaissance Italy. The inventories of the Medici family and other collectors reveal an appreciation for icons among Italian patrons, which suggests that received notions of Renaissance tastes may be in need of revision. The book thus offers new perspectives and insights and re-positions late and post-Byzantine art in a broader European cultural context.

Author : Robin Cormack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : 9780198778790

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Byzantine Art by Robin Cormack Pdf

"A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Byzantine art, providing an introduction to the whole period and range of styles."--

Author : Stuart Wilensky
Publisher : Stuart Wilensky
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Pre-Iconoclastic Byzantine Art and the Fieschi-Oppenheim-Morgan Reliquary of the True Cross by Stuart Wilensky Pdf

Pre-Iconoclastic Byzantine Art and the Fieschi-Oppenheim-Morgan Reliquary of the True Cross

Author : André Grabar
Publisher : London : Methuen
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : UOM:39015016577317

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Byzantium by André Grabar Pdf

An unmanageable, but lovable, eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who is a sort of misfit too.

Author : Robert S. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : UCSD:31822034332148

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Later Byzantine Painting by Robert S. Nelson Pdf

Written over nearly three decades, the fifteen essays involve the three a's of the title, art, agency, and appreciation. The first refers to the general subject matter of the book, Byzantine art, chiefly painting, of the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, the second to its often human-like agency, and the last to its historical reception. The series begins with art works themselves and with the imagery and iconography of church decoration and manuscript illumination, shifts to the ways that objects act in the world and affect their beholders, and concludes with more general appreciations of Byzantine art in case studies from the thirteenth century to the present.