Byzantine Rome / / Annie Montgomery Labatt.
Why does medieval Rome look so, for lack of a better word, Byzantine? Why do its monuments speak an aesthetic of the medieval East? And just how do we quantify that Byzantine aesthetic or even the word “Byzantine”? This book seeks to consider the ways in which the artistic styles and iconographies g...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Past Imperfect
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Sensibility of a Civilization -- Chapter 1. Imaging Christianity in Rome -- Chapter 2. A Question of Style -- Chapter 3. Rome in the Time of Iconoclasm -- Chapter 4. Forms of Separation -- Epilogue: Old St. Peter’s as Museum and Microcosm -- Further Reading -- Appendix: Dates of Medieval Roman Monuments |
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Summary: | Why does medieval Rome look so, for lack of a better word, Byzantine? Why do its monuments speak an aesthetic of the medieval East? And just how do we quantify that Byzantine aesthetic or even the word “Byzantine”? This book seeks to consider the ways in which the artistic styles and iconographies generally associated with the eastern medieval tradition had a life in the West and, in many cases, were just as western as they were eastern. Rome’s medieval monuments are a fundamental part of the history of the East, a history that says more about a cross- cultural exchange and interconnected “Romes” than difference and separation. Each chapter follows the political and theological relationships between the East and the West chronologically, exploring the socio-political exchanges as they manifest in the visual language of the monuments that defined the medieval landscape of Rome. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781641890045 9783110767094 9783110767001 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110992960 9783110992939 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781641890045?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Annie Montgomery Labatt. |