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Conflict, commerce, and an aesthetic of appropriation in the Italian maritime cities, 1000-1150 /

In Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic of Appropriation in the Italian Maritime Cities, 1000-1150 , Karen Rose Mathews analyzes the relationship between war, trade, and the use of spolia (appropriated objects from past and foreign cultures) as architectural decoration in the public monuments of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mathews, Karen R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Medieval Mediterranean ; v.112.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : visualizing commerce and conflict in the maritime cities of Medieval Italy
  • Local traditions and Norman innovations in the artistic culture of Southern Italy
  • Emulation of and appropriation from Byzantium in Venetian visual culture
  • The interplay of Islamic and Roman spolia on Pisan churches
  • Rivalry with Pisa and spolia as plunder of war in Medieval Genoa
  • Conclusion : shifting significations of the spolia aesthetic.