Wonderful things

Ashgate

2013

XIX, 328 p.

Society for the promotion of Byzantine studies. Publications ; 16

Contents: Introduction: Byzantium through its art, Liz James and Anthony Eastmond; Part I Exhibiting Byzantium: Learning lessons: from the Mother of God to Byzantium, Maria Vassilki; 'Of what is past, or passing, or to come', Robin Cormack; Two scenes from the prehistory of the Byzantine blockbuster, John Hanson; Exhibiting Byzantium: Edinburgh 1958 and London 2008, Rowena Loverance. Part II Object Lessons: Gospel decoration and its relation to artistic and doctrinal trends of the Middle-Byzantine period: a study with reference to the Marciana book covers, Niki J. Tsironis; The stepmum and the servant: the stepson and the sacred vessel, Cecily Hennessy; The Vienna 'empress' ivory and its companion in Florence: crowned in different glories?, Eileen Rubery; Representing decline and fall: 19th-century responses to the Asclepius-Hygieia and Clementinus ivory diptychs, Helen Rufus Ward; The complexity of the iconography of the bilateral icon with the Virgin Hodegetria and the Man of Sorrows, Kastoria, Teodora Burnand; The last wonderful thing: the icon of the Heavenly Ladder on Mount Sinai. Elena Ene D-Vasilescu; The date of two icons from Sinai, Georgi R. Parpulov; The Nestorian Discos in the light of apocryphal texts and artefacts, Vera Zalesskaya. Part III Byzantium Through its Art: From centre to periphery and beyond: the diffusion of models in late Antique metalware, Anastasia Drandaki; Textiles as text, Anna Muthesius; Some thoughts on Greco-Venetian artistic interactions in the 14th and early-15th centuries, Michele Bacci; Women at tombs: narrative, theatricality, and the contemplative mode, Robert Ousterhout; Show and tell, Leslie Brubaker; The idea of likeness in Byzantium, Anthony Cutler; Mary's parents in homilies before and after James Kokkinobaphos, Eirini Panou; Constantine's city: Constantine the Rhodian and the beauty of Constantinople, Marc D. Lauxtermann. Part IV Exhibiting Byzantium Reviewed: Seeing Byzantium: a personal response, Averil Ca

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