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Romanesque and the Mediterranean : points of contact across the Latin, Greek and Islamic worlds, c. 1000 to c. 1250 / edited by Rosa Maria Bacile and John McNeill.

Title: Romanesque and the Mediterranean : points of contact across the Latin, Greek and Islamic worlds, c. 1000 to c. 1250 / edited by Rosa Maria Bacile and John McNeill.
Author: Biennial International Romanesque Conferences (2nd : 2012 : Palermo, Italy)
Publication: Leeds, U.K. : Published for the British Archaeological Association by Maney Publishing, 2015.

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ix, 342 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 30 cm.

Summary

"The sixteen papers collected in this volume explore points of contact across the Latin, Greek and Islamic worlds between c. 1000 and c. 1250. They arise from a conference organised by the British Archaeological Association in Palermo in 2012, and reflect its interest in patterns of cultural exchange across the Mediterranean, ranging from the importation of artefacts - textiles, ceramics, ivories and metalwork for the most part - to a specific desire to recruit eastern artists or emulate eastern Mediterranean buildings. The individual essays cover a wide range of topics and media: from the ways in which the Cappella Palatina in Palermo fostered contacts between Muslim artists and Christian models, the importance of dress and textiles in the wider world of Mediterranean design, and the possible use of muslim-trained sculptors in the emergent architectural sculpture of late-11th-century northern Spain, to the significance of western saints in the development of Bethlehem as a pilgrimage centre and of eastern painters and techniques in the proliferation of panel painting in Catalonia around 1200. There are studies of buildings and the ideological purpose behind them at Canosa (Apulia), Feldebrő (Hungary), and Charroux (Aquitaine), comparative studies of the domed churches of western France, significant reappraisals of the porphyry tombs in Palermo cathedral, the pictorial programme adopted in the Baptistery at Parma, and of the chapter-house paintings at Sigena, and wide-ranging papers on the migration of images of exotic creatures across the Mediterranean and on that most elusive and apparently Mediterranean of objects - the Oliphant. The volume concludes with a study of the emergence of a supra-regional style of architectural sculpture in the western Mediterranean and evident in Barcelona, Tarragona and Provence. A third volume, based on the British Archaeological Associations's 2014 Conference in Barcelona, will explore Romanesque Patrons and Processes."--Publisher's description

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Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings
History

Note

Papers from a conference (the second of the British Archeological Association's series of Biennial International Romanesque Conferences) held in Palermo from April 16 to 18, 2012.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

Twelfth-century pilgrimage art in Bethlehem and Jerusalem : points of contact between Europe and the crusader kingdom / Jaroslav Folda -- The oliphant : a call for a shift of perspective / Mariam Rosser-Owen -- Muslim artists and Christian models in the painted ceilings of the Cappella Palatina / Jeremy Johns -- Dress and textiles in the 12th-century painted ceilings of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo / Francesca Manuela Anzelmo -- A porphyry workshop in Norman Palermo / Rosa Maria Bacile -- The Mausoleum of Bohemund in Canosa and the architectural setting of ruler tombs in Norman Italy / Mark J. Johnson -- The date, iconography and dedication of the Cathedral of Canosa / Eric Fernie -- Preparing for the end : painting in the Baptistery of Parma and the great devotion of 1233 / Ludovico V. Geymonat -- Hungary, Byzantium, Italy : architectural connections in the 11th Century / Béla Zsolt Szakács -- Building Jerusalem in western France : the case of St-Sauveur at Charroux / John McNeill-- A western interpretation of an oriental scheme : the domed churches in Romanesque Aquitaine / Claude Andrault-Schmitt -- The migration of Mediterranean images : strange creatures in Spanish buildings and scriptoria between the 9th and 11th centuries / Gerardo Boto -- Sculptors in Medieval Spain after the conquest of Toledo in 1085 / Rose Walker -- The paintings of the chapter-house of Sigena and the art of the crusader kingdoms / Dulce Ocón -- Catalan panel painting around 1200, the eastern Mediterranean and Byzantium / Manuel Castiñeiras -- Catalonia, Provence and the Holy Land : late 12th-century sculpture in Barcelona / Jordi Camps i Soria.

ISBN

9781909662803
1909662801

LCCN

^^2016387277

OCLC

907206397
SCSB-10276282

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library