Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium : Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond.
"The church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond, built by the emperor Manuel I Grand Komnenos (1238-63) in the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade, is the finest surviving Byzantine imperial monument of its period. Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium is the first...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2004.
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Colección: | Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the Byzantine empires in the thirteenth century
- 1. Hagia Sophia and its contexts
- 2. Hagia Sophia : architecture and the construction of identity
- 3. Trebizond as imperial capital : ceremonial and processions
- 4. Adam, exile and 'Byzantine' sculpture
- 5. Ornamental sculpture and cultural orientation : Hagia Sophia, the Seljuqs and the Caucasus
- 6. Wall paintings and politics : rebuilding empire?
- 7. Hagia Sophia : art, the liturgy and modernity
- 8. Manuel I Grand Komnenos : the embodiment of empire.