The Material and the Ideal

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

vi, 298 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Anthony Cutler is the Evan Pugh Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania State University. He has published extensively on Late Antique and Byzantine art, with a special concentration on ivory carving.
Arietta Papaconstantinou is currently Marie Curie Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University. She is the author of Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (CNRS, 2001) and of various articles on aspects of late antique and early Islamic social history and material culture.

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General readers and specialists in Late Antique, Byzantine and Western Medieval art and archaeology.

1. Anthony Cutler: The Material and the Ideal: An Introduction
2. Beat Brenk: Zur Apsis als Bildort
3. Arietta Papaconstantinou: Divine or Human? Some Remarks on the Design and Layout of Late Antique Basilicas
4. Etleva Nallbani: Urban and Rural Mortuary Practices in Early Medieval Illyricum. Some General Considerations
5. Brigitte Pitarakis: L’orfèvre et l’architecte: Autour d’un groupe d’edifices constantinopolitains du VIe siècle
6. Jeffrey Featherstone: Di j e[ndeixin: Display in Court Ceremonial (De Cerimoniis II,15)
7. Anthony Cutler and Nancy Patterson Ševčenko: A Recently Discovered Ivory of St. Ignatios and the Lions
8. Ivana Jetvić: Le nouvel ordre du monde ou l‘image du cosmos à Lesnovo
9. Sharon E. J. Gerstel: The Sacred Vessel and the Measure of a Man
10. Maria Parani: On the Personal Life of Objects in Medieval Byzantium
11. Véronique François: Des potiers de Nicée aux faïenciers d’Iznik: tradition maintenue ou fausse continuité?
12. Elisabeth Yota: Un tetraévangile provincial d’origine syro-palestinienne: Florence, Bibliothèque Laurentienne Conv. Soppr. gr. 160
13. Jannic Durand: Une prétendue relique de Constantinople: la “Véronique” de Corbie
14. Jean Wirth: À propos des influencs byzantines sur l’art du Moyen Âge occidental

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