The Art of the Genoese Colonies of the Black Sea Basin (1261-1475)
Title | The Art of the Genoese Colonies of the Black Sea Basin (1261-1475) PDF eBook |
Author | Rafal Quirini-Poplawski |
Publisher | Medieval Mediterranean |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-09-28 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9789004538931 |
Rafal Quirini-Poplawski offers here the first panorama of the artistic phenomena of the Genoese outposts around the Black Sea. He argues that artistic production was less "Genoese" than previously thought, but nevertheless extraordinarily rich and colorful, clearly demonstrating intercultural exchange.
The Art of the Genoese Colonies of the Black Sea Basin (1261-1475)
Title | The Art of the Genoese Colonies of the Black Sea Basin (1261-1475) PDF eBook |
Author | Rafał Quirini-Popławski |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2023-09-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004678905 |
Rafał Quirini-Popławski offers here the first panorama of the artistic phenomena of the Genoese outposts scattered around the Black Sea, an area whose cultural history is little known. The artistic creativity of the region emerges as extraordinarily rich and colorful, with a variety of heterogeneous, hybrid and intermingled characteristics. The book questions the extent to which the descriptor "Genoese" can be applied to the settlements’ artistic production; Quirini-Popławski demonstrates that, despite entrenched views of these colonies as centres of Italian and Latin culture, it was in fact Greek and Armenian art that was of greater importance.
Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century
Title | Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2023-10-20 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9004679804 |
With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural perspective, tracing its continuous transformations in form and function from Late Antiquity to the present day. Whereas previous literature has almost exclusively placed emphasis on the Byzantine phase of the building’s history, including the status of its mosaics and paintings as major works of Palaiologan culture, this study is the first to investigate the shifting meanings with which the Chora/Kariye Camii site has been invested over time and across uninterrupted alterations, interventions, and transformations. Bringing together contributions from archaeologists, art historians, philologists, anthroplogists and historians, the volume provides a new framework for understanding not only this building but, more generally, edifices that have undergone interventions and transformations within multicultural societies. The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
A Companion to Medieval Genoa
Title | A Companion to Medieval Genoa PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 2018-03-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004360611 |
A Companion to Medieval Genoa introduces non-specialists to recent scholarship on the vibrant and source-rich medieval history of Genoa. Focusing mostly on the eleventh to fifteenth centuries, the volume positions the city of Genoa and the Genoese within the broader history of the Italian peninsula and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. Thematic contributions highlight the interdependence of local, regional, and international concerns, and serve as a helpful corrective to the traditional overemphasis of Florence and Venice in the English-language historiography of medieval Italy. The volume thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of medieval Italy—as well as a handy introduction to the riches of the Genoese archives—to undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in related fields. Contributors are Ross Balzaretti, Carrie E. Beneš, Denise Bezzina, Roberta Braccia, Luca Filangieri, George L. Gorse, Paola Guglielmotti, Thomas Kirk, Sandra Macchiavello, Merav Mack, Jeffrey Miner, Rebecca Müller, Antonio Musarra, Sandra Origone, Giovanna Petti Balbi, Valeria Polonio, Gervase Rosser, Antonella Rovere, Stefan Stantchev, and Carlo Taviani.
The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Title | The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil Ciocîltan |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2012-09-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004226664 |
The inclusion of the Black Sea basin into the long-distance trade network – with its two axes of the Silk Road through the Golden Horde (Urgench-Sarai-Tana/Caffa) and the Spice Road through the Ilkhanate (Ormuz-Tabriz-Trebizond) – was the two Mongol states’ most important contribution to making the sea a “crossroads of international commerce”.
Byzantium/Modernism
Title | Byzantium/Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2015-06-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004300015 |
Byzantium/Modernism features contributions by fourteen international scholars and brings together a diverse range of interdisciplinary essays on art, architecture, theatre, film, literature, and philosophy, which examine how and why Byzantine art and image theory can contribute to our understanding of modern and contemporary visual culture. Particular attention is given to intercultural dialogues between the former dominions of the Byzantine Empire, with a special focus on Greece, Turkey, and Russia, and the artistic production of Western Europe and America. Together, these essays invite the reader to think critically and theoretically about the dialogic interchange between Byzantium and modernism and to consider this cross-temporal encounter as an ongoing and historically deep narrative, rather than an ephemeral or localized trend. Contributors are Tulay Atak, Charles Barber, Elena Boeck, Anthony Cutler, Rico Franses, Dimitra Kotoula, Marie-José Mondzain, Myroslava M. Mudrak, Robert S. Nelson, Robert Ousterhout, Stratis Papaioannou, Glenn Peers, Jane A. Sharp and Devin Singh.
Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th – 15th Centuries)
Title | Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th – 15th Centuries) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 2022-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 900451158X |
(The open access version of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.) The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scène of the rulers’ bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-types, and media. Contributors are Michele Bacci, Nicolas Bock, Gerardo Boto Varela, Branislav Cvetković, Sofia Fernández Pozzo, Gohar Grigoryan Savary, Elodie Leschot, Vinni Lucherini, Ioanna Rapti, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Marta Serrano-Coll, Lucinia Speciale, Manuela Studer-Karlen, Mirko Vagnoni, and Edda Vardanyan.