A new generation of American medieval art historians explores how sacred images were perceived during the Middle Ages in Byzantium and Europe. Focusing on the relationship between a particular type of medieval art - the sacred image - and its audience, the contributors consider the part played in this relationship by the image's context, whether on the page of a book or on the wall of a building. The book allows the reader to see the fluidity of the sacred image, showing how factors including audience, purpose, and setting affected the form it took. The essays cover a full range of images, including panel paintings, altarpieces, manuscripts, and wall paintings, and a rich variety of socioreligious settings, private, monastic, and imperial. Also examined are the differences between images produced for a single viewer and those produced for communities; images produced for private contemplation or devotion and those that functioned within a liturgical setting; and the varying ways in which sacred images affected women and men, religious and secular communities, rulers and the ruled.
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In Byzantium, Iconoclasm was precipitated by painted images, a fact the casual student of medieval history might be excused for overlooking. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fictive icons, dugento painting, later dugento, matris tutela, inner narthex, cura monialium, imperial dress, early icons, prior provincial, medieval icon, verse life, decorative program, sacred images, prose life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Middle Ages, Kariye Djami, Petrus Christus, Venturino da Bergamo, Ascent of the Cross, Cambrai Notre-Dame, Philip the Good, Hayne de Bruxelles, Paris Gregory, Mount Sinai, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, John of Damascus, Passio Kyliani, Art Bulletin, Escorial Crucifixion, Virgin Blachernitissa, Denis the Carthusian, Monastery of Saint Catherine, Romanos the Melode, Byzantine Masterpiece, Christ Child, Christ Pantokrator, Der Nersessian, Feast of the Pheasant New!
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In Byzantium, Iconoclasm was precipitated by painted images, a fact the casual student of medieval history might be excused for overlooking. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fictive icons, dugento painting, later dugento, matris tutela, inner narthex, cura monialium, imperial dress, early icons, prior provincial, medieval icon, verse life, decorative program, sacred images, prose life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Middle Ages, Kariye Djami, Petrus Christus, Venturino da Bergamo, Ascent of the Cross, Cambrai Notre-Dame, Philip the Good, Hayne de Bruxelles, Paris Gregory, Mount Sinai, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, John of Damascus, Passio Kyliani, Art Bulletin, Escorial Crucifixion, Virgin Blachernitissa, Denis the Carthusian, Monastery of Saint Catherine, Romanos the Melode, Byzantine Masterpiece, Christ Child, Christ Pantokrator, Der Nersessian, Feast of the Pheasant New!
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- Byzantine Studies and Other Essays by Norman Hepburn Baynes on 4 pages
- Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture by Richard Krautheimer on page 41, and page 124
- Byzantine Painting by Andre Grabar on page 42, and page 124
- The Art of Byzantium and the Medieval West: Selected Studies by Ernst Kitzinger in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Mosaics of Norman Sicily by Otto Demus on page 129, and Back Matter
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- Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology) by Leslie Brubaker on 4 pages
- The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ's Passion by Celia Chazelle on page 88, and Back Matter
- Liquid Assets, Dangerous Gifts: Presents and Politics at the End of the Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series) by Valentin Groebner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680 (Early Modern Cultural Studies Series) by David Hawkes in Back Matter
- Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium by Judith Herrin in Back Matter
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