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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Byzantine Art"”.
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RACIALIZED BEAUTY, PATHETIC POWER, AND THE BODY OF CHRIST IN BYZANTINE ART
… ubiquitous subjects in the canon of “Western” art. Despite the lack of any description of Christ’s likeness in Christian Scripture, the material record is remarkably consistent in its treatment of his appearance. This dissertation explores how this convention came into being. A close analysis …
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From the Resurrection to the Ascension: Christ's post Resurrection appearances in Byzantine Art
… and image, as well as the influence exerted on art by contemporary theology, liturgy and politics. The earliest use of these apparitions in art is associated with baptism while in literature they were successfully employed against heresies. The Virgin’s participation in the post-Resurrection …
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Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art
… Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art” examines the role of Byzantine art in Bloomsbury art critics Roger Fry’s and Clive Bell’s narratives of aesthetic Modernism. Fry, in his pre-World War I and interwar writings and teachings on art, and Bell, in seminal texts such as <em>Art</em> …
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The Arts and Crafts movement: exchanges between Greece and Britain (1876-1930)
… exchanges between Britain and Greece as part of the Arts and Crafts Movement which took shape in England in the 1880s. It had an impact throughout Europe; its influence was especially significant on newly emergent nation states. Two important elements were the use of the past as …
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"La Revelation m'est venue de l'Orient" Henri Matisse
… discovered and learnt to appreciate Islamic and Byzantine art. The fundamental role it played in the formation of his aesthetic as a painter. In a second step we will focus on Matisse's "Oriental" voyages which confirmed his earlier Oriental lessons. In a third step we will present Matisse's …
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The Monastery Tou Libos: Architecture, Sculpture, and Liturgical Planning in Middle and Late Byzantine Constantinople
… Libos within the context of the middle and late Byzantine art and architecture.
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Friedrich Schlegel and the Romantic Iconic Turn
… of the medieval devotional image and the Byzantine iconic tradition in German Romanticism. Tracing the contours and political implications of a Romantic iconic turn in the aesthetics of Friedrich Schlegel and the painting of Caspar David Friedrich, my dissertation concentrates on a …
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Stringed musical instruments : artefacts in the archaeology of Western Europe 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200.
… European view of stringed musical instruments as artefacts in the archaeology of later Prehistory and the early Hiddle Ages. It reports on recent finds of new data during the investigation of archaeological collections both in Britain and on the Continent, and it reassesses the significance of …
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World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900
… to the Roman Empire (the Carolingian, the Byzantine, and the Umayyad states). Early medieval cosmological images remained formally and iconographically close to their late antique models. They thus provide a point of comparison allowing examination of the changing functions of images. Two …
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Schemata: The Language of the Body in Middle Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts
… language add a vital layer of meaning to middle Byzantine figural art, and they deserve systematic scholarly attention. My dissertation offers a method for unpicking the meanings of individual movements, and, more importantly, it explores the underlying cultural concerns that shaped the form of …
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Depicting Orthodoxy: The Novgorod Sophia icon reconsidered
… a great innovation of fifteenth-century Russian art. It represents the winged female Sophia flanked by the Theotokos and John the Baptist. Although the icon has a contemporaneous commentary and it exercised a profound influence on Russian cultural history (inspiring, among others, the …
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Η ΕΙΚΟΝΟΓΡΑΦΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΕΙΡΟΓΡΑΦΟΥ ΑΡΙΘ. 587Μ. ΤΗΣ ΜΟΝΗΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ ΣΤΟ ΑΓΙΟ ΟΡΟΣ. ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΩΝ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΩΝ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΣΤΑΡΙΩΝ
… MANUSCRIPT IS PLACED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BYZANTINE LECTIONARY ILLUSTRATIONS.
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From Tempera to Ink to Code: The Other Media of Orthodox Iconography
… approach draws upon the fields of media studies, art history, art practice, religious studies, history and bibliography to establish an alternative way of viewing and understanding the icon beyond its original medium. The study focuses on the Vladimir icon of the Mother of God as one of the most …