Prayer and Power in Byzantine and Papal ImageryVariorum
Christopher Walter
ISBN: 0860783634
price: $165.00 hardcover
In his work Dr Walter starts from the premise that the
traditional methods used in the study of art history distort our
appreciation of Byzantine art. Development can be traced more
plausibly, he argues, in terms of the function of the artefacts
and the message they were designed to communicate. As well as
seeking out the iconographical sources of medieval images, in
antique and early Christian art, he is therefore concerned to
establish parallels in medieval ceremony and literary sources in
order to explain their meaning. The first articles here examine
the iconography of local bishops and Dionysius the Areopagite,
then concentrate on the imperial and official themes of the
promulgation of authority, coronation and marriage. The next
section deals with christological and hagiographical themes in
the development of Psalter illustration, looking at the possible
impact of the Iconoclast era and the changes that can be detected
in how the psalms were seen and used.
Contents: Preface; Expressionism and Hellenism: a note on
stylistic tendencies in Byzantine figurative art from Spätantike
to the Macedonian "Renaissance"; Portraits of local
bishops: a note on their significance; Three notes on the
iconography of Dionysius the Areopagite; The iconographical
sources for the coronation of Milutin and Simonida at
Grac"anica; The Dextrarum junctio of Lepcis Magna in
relation to the iconography of marriage; Marriage crowns in
Byzantine iconography; Papal political imagery in the medieval
Lateran palace (parts I & II); Le souvenir du IIe concile de
Nicée dans l'iconographie byzantine; Christological themes in
the Byzantine marginal Psalters from the 9th to the 11th century;
"Latter-day" saints and the image of Christ in
9th-century marginal psalters; "Latter-day" saints in
the model for the London and Barberini Psalters; The
aristocratic-psalters and ode illustration in Byzantium; Index of
manuscripts; General index.
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