Late antique and medieval art of the Mediterranean world / edited by Eva R. Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoffman, Eva Rose F.

Series:

Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 5.

Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Medieval--Mediterranean Region.

Art, Medieval.

Art, Byzantine--Mediterranean Region.

Art, Byzantine.

Islamic art--Mediterranean Region.

Islamic art.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization.

Mediterranean Region.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xvii, 426 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007.

Summary:

This comprehensive anthology offers a new approach to the visual arts classified as Early Christian-Syzantine. It creates an integrated study of the art and culture in the lands surrounding the Mediterranean from late-antiquity through medieval times (3rd to 13th centuries CE), bringing together material that routinely had been separated by labels such as "Early Christian," "Byzantine," "Romanesque," and "Islamic." Beginning with a thorough introduction that maps the late antique and medieval Mediterranean world, this volume, includes-an extensive range of pertinent topics, from the effect that converging cultures in late antiquity had an art, to the cultural identities that can be observed by looking at difference of tradition in visual art, and to the variance of illuminations in holy books. The result is a valuable anthology that explores the historical, geographical, and cultural interactions in the visual arts of this period, rethinking the classifications in late antique, medieval, and Mediterranean art.

Contents:

Acknowledgments to Sources xv

Introduction: Remapping the Art of the Mediterranean 1

Part I Late Antiquity: Converging Cultures, Competing Traditions. Pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Sasanian Art 9

1 The Changing Nature of Roman Art and the Art-Historical Problem of Style / Jas Elsner 11

2 Good and Bad Images from the Synagogue of Dura Europos: Contexts, Subtexts, Intertexts / Annabel Jane Wharton 19

3 Exotic Taste: The Lure of Sasanian Persia / Anna Gonnosova 40

4 Dionysiac Motifs / Richard Ettinghausen 47

Part II Continuities: Tradition and Formation of Cultural Identities 61

5 The Good Life / Henry Maguire 63

6 Hellenism and Islam / G. W. Bowersock 85

7 The Draped Universe of Islam / Lisa Golombek 97

Part III Image and Word: Early Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic Art 115

8 The Beginnings of Biblical Illustration / John Lowden 117

9 Sacred Image, Sacred Power / Gary Vikan 135

10 The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem / Oleg Grabar 147

11 The Image of the Word: Notes on the Religious Iconography of Islam / Erica Cruikshank Dodd 185

12 Islam, Iconoclasm, and the Declaration of Doctrine / G. R. D. King 213

Part IV Local Syncretistic Traditions: Jews, Muslims, and Christians 227

13 Hebrew Book Illumination in the Fatimid Era / Rachel Milstein 229

14 An Icon at Mt. Sinai and Christian Painting in Muslim Egypt during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries / Robert S. Nelson 242

Part V Luxury Arts and the Representation of the Court 271

15 The Cup of San Marco and the "Classical" in Byzantium / Ioli Kalavrezou 273

16 Images of the Court / Henry Maguire 285

17 But Is It Art? / Robin Cormack 301

Part VI Expanding Boundaries: Spain, Sicily, Venice, and Beyond 315

18 Pathways of Portability: Islamic and Christian Interchange from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century / Eva R. Hoffman 317

19 Islam, Christianity, and the Problem of Religious Art / Jerrilynn D. Dodds 350

20 The Medieval Object-Enigma, and the Problem of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo / William Tronzo 367

21 Venice and Islam in the Middle Ages: Some Observations on the Question of Architectural Influence / Deborah Howard 389.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405120715

1405120711

9781405120722

140512072X

OCLC:

76074094