Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors (843–1261)

by Edited by Olenka Z. Pevny

• ISBN13: 9780300089295
• ISBN10: 0300089295
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-01-11
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Summary

In this book authorities from around the world examine Byzantine art, discussing its guiding principles and the rich variety of its forms and viewing it as an expression of the complexity and intensity of Byzantium's relations to its neighbors.

Scholars investigate the production, attribution, and dating of Byzantine artworks and explicate the complex relationship between Byzantine and its indigenous cultures. They conclude that just as the influence of modern empires can be traced far beyond their borders by the hegemony of their artistic traditions, the art of the Byzantine empire attests to the full range of its political and cultural power. Lavishly illustrated, this book will be of interest to scholars and nonspecialists alike.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
William D. Wixom
Helen C. Evans
Preface	x
Olenka Z. Pevny
Perceptions of Byzantium	2	(20)
Ihor Sevcenko
Byzantine Monasticism and the Liturgical Arts	22	(18)
Alice-Mary Talbot
The Panagiarion of Alexios Komnenos Angelos and Middle Byzantine Painting	40	(16)
Yuri Piatnitsky
On the Symbolism of Classical Antique Images in Middle Byzantine Art: A Cameo with a Mythological Subject	56	(4)
Vera N. Zalesskaya
The State of Research on the Monomachos Crown and Some Further Thoughts	60	(24)
Etele Kiss
The Artukid Bowl: Courtly Art in the Middle Byzantine Period and Its Relation to the Islamic East	84	(18)
Thomas Steppan
The Icon of Saint George, with Scenes from His Life, from the Town of Mariupol'	102	(16)
Liudmyla Milyaeva
The Earliest Surviving Icons from Bulgaria	118	(18)
Elka Bakalova
Between Byzantium and Rome: Manuscripts from Southern Italy	136	(18)
Guglielmo Cavallo
Church Architecture in Greece during the Middle Byzantine Period	154	(14)
Panayotis L. Vocotopoulos
Nubia, Egypt, and Byzantium	168	(14)
Wlodzimierz Godlewski
The History of Georgian-Byzantine Relations	182	(6)
Nodar Lomouri
Georgia and the Byzantine World: Artistic Aspects	188
Kitty Matchabeli