Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World

Eva R. Hoffman978-1-4051-2071-5, 978-1-4051-2072-2

Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World ИСТОРИЯ, КУЛЬТУРА и ИСКУССТВО Автор: Eva R. Hoffman Название: Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell Год: 2007 Формат: pdf in rar Размер: 8.19 Мб Язык: Английский / EnglishLate Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World is a much-needed teaching anthology that rethinks and broadens the scope of the stale and limiting classifications used for Early Christian-Byzantine visual arts.* A comprehensive anthology offering a new approach to the visual arts classified as Early Christian-Byzantine* Comprised of essays from experts in the field that integrate the newer, historiographical research into ‘the canon’ of established scholarship* Exposes the historical, geographical and cultural continuities and interactions in the visual arts of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean world* Covers an extensive range of topics, including the effect that converging cultures in late antiquity had on art, the cultural identities that can be observed by looking at difference of tradition in visual art, and the variance of illuminations in holy books0 1 2 3 4 5

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 5
List of Illustrations……Page 9
Series Editor’s Preface……Page 12
Preface and Acknowledgments……Page 13
Acknowledgments to Sources……Page 15
Introduction: Remapping the Art of the Mediterranean……Page 19
Part I: Late Antiquity: Converging Cultures, Competing Traditions. Pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Sasanian Art……Page 27
1: The Changing Nature of Roman Art and the Art-Historical Problem of Style……Page 29
2: Good and Bad Images from the Synagogue of Dura Europos: Contexts, Subtexts, Intertexts……Page 37
3: Exotic Taste: The Lure of Sasanian Persia……Page 58
4: Dionysiac Motifs……Page 65
Part II: Continuities: Tradition and Formation of Cultural Identities……Page 79
5: The Good Life……Page 81
6: Hellenism and Islam……Page 103
7: The Draped Universe of Islam……Page 115
Part III: Image and Word: Early Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic Art……Page 133
8: The Beginnings of Biblical Illustration……Page 135
9: Sacred Image, Sacred Power……Page 153
10: The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem……Page 165
11: The Image of the Word: Notes on the Religious Iconography of Islam……Page 203
12: Islam, Iconoclasm, and the Declaration of Doctrine……Page 231
Part IV: Local Syncretistic Traditions: Jews, Muslims, and Christians……Page 245
13: Hebrew Book Illumination in the Fatimid Era……Page 247
14: An Icon at Mt. Sinai and Christian Painting in Muslim Egypt during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries……Page 260
Part V: Luxury Arts and the Representation of the Court……Page 289
15: The Cup of San Marco and the “Classical” in Byzantium……Page 291
16: Images of the Court……Page 303
17: But Is It Art?……Page 319
Part VI: Expanding Boundaries: Spain, Sicily, Venice, and Beyond……Page 333
18: Pathways of Portability: Islamic and Christian Interchange from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century……Page 335
19: Islam, Christianity, and the Problem of Religious Art……Page 368
20: The Medieval Object-Enigma, and the Problem of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo……Page 385
21: Venice and Islam in the Middle Ages: Some Observations on the Question of Architectural Influence……Page 407
Index……Page 423