... with a discussion of the history of Byzantine art and architecture. It also examines the chronology and administration of Byzantine archaeology, the approaches used to study it, as well as Byzantine villages, towns, and monuments. archaeology Athens Constantinople Greece Mistra Thessalonike Anatolia Bell...

... A Healer of Horses the Pious Nikephoros epigram fresco–icon of St George narthex of the church at Asinou on Cyprus late 12th c Τὴν ποικίλην ψηφῖδα Παῦλος εἰσάγει epigram mosaic pavement East Cathedral at Apamea on the Orontes 6th c Byzantine epigraphy Byzantine art inscription epigram visual...

... Byzantium's place in historical writing today that so much of the contemporary written source material is the work of a privileged elite, or that so much Byzantine art is religious in character. Byzantium is not merely medieval but also deeply unfamiliar. Thus, valiant efforts are needed to recapture...

... circumstances of the creation of the Novgorod Sophia iconography. 1 The Icon and Its Commentary The appearance of novel allegorical trends in Russian painting from the fteenth century onwards was preceded by similar phenomena in late Byzantine art. In Byzantium, the emergence of iconographic allegorism...

... Zoroastrianism Aleppo Balkans cities Greece Greeks plague bubonic administration imperial aristocracy Byzantine ‘themes’ Antioch Avars Bulgars Bulgaria Crete Cyprus Georgia Italy John Curcuas John Tzimisces Sicily Thrace Asia Minor Black Sea Byzantine art Byzantium Constantinople Harun al...

...This chapter focuses on Byzantine art and architecture. Not all Byzantine art was a luxury art. However, the lasting appeal of its use of gold, silver, enamel, and precious stones is evident from the choice of objects in blockbuster exhibitions and in the admiring reactions of their visitors...

...Art historians have always employed a variety of methodological approaches to study Byzantine art. With the notable exception of Kurt Weitzmann, however, most Byzantinists have recently put an explicit emphasis on theory, tacitly adopting particular critical tactics without comment...

...This book presents a study of the portrayal of nature in Byzantine art and literature. It shows how the Byzantines embraced terrestrial creation in the decoration of their churches during the fifth to seventh centuries, but then adopted a more cautious attitude toward the depiction of animals...

... Theocritus allegory Andrea Courage Manliness Phronesis Prudence ekphrasis Balsamon Theodore Council in Trullo Byzantine art Secular art Ivory Silver Mythology Romance Veroli Casket San Marco Censer Visual humour Inversion Scholars have interpreted comical aspects of middle Byzantine...

... of transforming symbolic thought into visual structure, which is a way of decoding the mysteries of the liturgy. This chapter shows that the parallels between the earthly and heavenly hierarchies have been widely represented in Byzantine art and dialogue, and that these gave their people access to heaven, if only...

... identity were becoming one. The Latin occupation led Byzantium’s educated elite to reconsider the Greek aspect to their identity and to greater intellectual engagement with classical literature and philosophy. Byzantine art also flourished. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottoman Turks was soon...

... in recent years. Iconography is a fundamental approach to the study of early Christian and Byzantine art. This article discusses some of the issues that have been investigated by scholars of Early Christian and Byzantine iconography, including Christian art (catacomb paintings and carved sarcophagi...

... Islamic sculpture Sasanian art Byzantine art this essay has two principal aims. The first is to draw attention to the borrowings from classical and Byzantine and, to a lesser extent, Sasanian art at Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Gharbī, assessing the changes to which some of them were subjected...

... to decenter the familiar art-h­istorical narratives of Renaissance and Byzantine art and to learn to look, with these artists, from a different point of view. A further reason to embrace the adoption of this term is found on Crete itself, where the word was given notable currency in the early 1590s when a new...