Research Catalog

Title

Wonderful things : Byzantium through its art : papers from the 42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009 / edited by Antony Eastmond and Liz James.

Author

Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (42nd : 2009 : London, England)

Publication

• Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eastmond, Antony, 1966-
• James, Liz
• Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)

Description

xix, 328 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Publications of the Society for the promotion of Byzantine studies ; publication 16

Uniform Title

Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ; 16.

Subjects

• Art and society
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Art, Byzantine > Congresses
• Kunst
• Byzantine studies
• Byzantine Empire
• Art and society > Byzantine Empire > Congresses
• Byzantinisches Reich

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Learning lessons : from the Mother of God to Byzantium 330-1453 / Maria Vassilaki -- '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 -- 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 : nineteenth-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 or sorrows, Kastoria / Teodora Burnand -- The last wonderful thing : the icon of the heavenly ladder on Mount Sinai / Elena Ene D-Vasilescu -- The date of the two icons from Sinai / Georgi R. Parpulov -- The Nestorian discos in the light of Apocryphal texts and artefacts / Vera Zalesskaya -- From centre to periphery and beyond : the diffusion of models in later antique metalware / Anastasia Drandaki -- Textiles as text / Anna Muthesius -- Some thoughts on Greco-Venetian artistic interactions in the fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries / Michele Bacci -- Women at tombs : narrative, theaticality, and the contemplative mode / Robert Ousterhout -- Show and tell / Leslie Brubaker -- The idea of likeness in Byzantium / Anthony Cutler -- Mary's parents in homlies before and after James Kokkinobaphos / Eirini Panou -- Constantine's city : Constantine the Rhodian and the beauty of Constantinople / Marc D. Lauxtermann -- Seeing Bysantium : a personal response / Averil Cameron.

Call Number

JFE 17-5052

ISBN

• 9781409455141
• 1409455149

LCCN

2012047180

OCLC

819741829

Conference

Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (42nd : 2009 : London, England)

Title

Wonderful things : Byzantium through its art : papers from the 42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009 / edited by Antony Eastmond and Liz James.

Publisher

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Publications of the Society for the promotion of Byzantine studies ; publication 16

Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ; 16.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Indexed Term

Byzantine studies

Added Author

Eastmond, Antony, 1966- editor.

James, Liz, editor.

Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)

Research Call Number

JFE 17-5052