Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium Perceptions and Representations in Art and Text

by Hatzaki, Myrto

ISBN13:
9780230007154
ISBN10:
0230007155
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2009-12-15
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Beauty and the Beastlooks into physical beauty in Byzantium, and reveals a quality with an unmistakable dark side. It is the curious dynamics of beauty in general, and male beauty in particular, that this book aims to unravel in a way that affects our perception of the (male) body in Byzantium and of beauty in the Byzantine world.

Author Biography

Myrto Hatzaki is a curator at the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum and the A. G. Leventis Foundation.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Byzantine Ideal of Beauty: Definitions and Perceptions	p. 8
A Byzantine ideal of beauty	p. 8
The real and the ideal: Beauty between fact and fiction	p. 14
Gender, the image and the mask of beauty	p. 24
On the beauty of men 24
Only Skin-Deep: Beauty and Ugliness between Good and Evil	p. 33
The varied face of ugliness	p. 34
Handsome heroes, ugly villains and other half-truths	p. 39
The handsome executioner 42
Beauty is as beauty does?	p. 46
Beauty and Power and Beauty as Power	p. 49
Beauty as a force of action	p. 49
The beautiful body as statue	p. 52
The beauty of harmony and symmetry	p. 58
The Beauty of Broken Bodies: Pain, Eloquence and Emotion	p. 66
The beauty of the dead Christ	p. 67
Painting the unsayable	p. 73
Beauty and the horror of death	p. 75
The beauty of images, rhetoric and the power of emotion	p. 78
Angels and Eunuchs: The Beauty of Liminal Masculinity	p. 86
The angel's body between word and image	p. 86
'Beautiful, blond and resembling the eunuchs of the palace'	p. 93
The angel and the Adam's apple	p. 96
The beauty of 'eternal springtime'	p. 100
Beauty and the captivated gaze	p. 106
The Fragile Beauty of Soldiers	p. 116
Beautiful soldiers on display	p. 116
Between Ares and Eros: Dangerous beauty and the soldier's fragile masculinity	p. 124
The unkempt beauty of military masculinity	p. 131
Conclusion	p. 136
Notes	p. 139
List of Illustrations	p. 79
Bibliography	p. 175
Illustration Sources	p. 190
Index
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