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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154654103321

Autore

Connor Carolyn L (Carolyn Loessel)

Titolo

Saints and spectacle : Byzantine mosaics in their cultural setting / / Carolyn L. Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-061414-5

0-19-045764-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xvii, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

720.9495

Soggetti

Mosaics, Byzantine - Themes, motives - Byzantine Empire

Architecture, Byzantine - Byzantine Empire

Church architecture - Byzantine Empire

Art and society

Church and state

Byzantine Empire Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Middle Byzantine mosaics : appearance and character -- The lost mosaics of Constantinople and the Middle Byzantine program of church decoration -- Urban culture of the ninth and tenth centuries -- Feasting the saints : the sanctoral topography of Constantinople -- Mosaics as a ritual art : Byzantine mosaics at work.

Sommario/riassunto

The awe-inspiring mosaics covering the walls, vaults, and domes of Byzantine churches of the medieval period still remain a mystery to modern viewers. Saints and Spectacle ventures into the world of ninth- and tenth-century Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, to recapture the spirit of Byzantine thought and expression after Iconoclasm. Texts, artworks, and the archaeological record aid in reconstructing the visual and literary context of the age of the first rulers of the Macedonian Dynasty.