In order to give an answer to the question how Byzantine Art History will look in the future, we will have to wait. However, what we can do now is to put before the audience the collected papers presented at the International Symposium 'Towards Rewriting? New Approaches to Byzantine Art and Archaeology', organized by the Faculty of Church History of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow and the Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, held on September, 8–10, 2008, and attended mostly by scholars of the younger generation. We decided not to divide texts on art history and archeology into separate sections as we deeply believe that close cooperation between the two disciplines is inevitable and modern Byzantine scholars should use as much evidence delivered by their colleagues as possible. The volume was instead divided – just like the conference itself – into three parts: 'Attitudes', 'Interpretations' and 'Discoveries'. The authors of the papers included into the first two sections tried to look under a different angle (sometimes using new methods or assumptions) in order to find out answers for issues still unresolved. It is on the reader to assess whether they managed to do it and whether their theories appear verifiable. The third part focuses on the objects unknown to the broader audience – not only new archaeological finds, but also unpublished artifacts stored in museums. At the end of the volume we added three texts under headline 'Contribution to the Studies on Byzantine Art – Past & Future', presenting issues connected with the history of Byzantine Art History and a project recently undertaken by a group of art historians from Vienna.
Author(s): Piotr Ł. Grotowski, Sławomir Skrzyniarz (eds.)
Series: Series Byzantina. Studies on Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art, 8
Publisher: Cardinal Stefan Wyszyńsky University
Year: 2010
Language: English, French, German
Pages: 302
City: Warsaw
Preface (Piotr Ł. Grotowski) 7
PART I: ATTITUDE
Alexander Musin / Russian Medieval Culture as an 'Area of Preservation' of the Byzantine Civilization 11
Athanassios Semoglou / L’éloquence au service d’archéologie. Les 'enfants aimés' de Theodore Métochite et sa bibliothèque dans le monastère de Chora 45
Liliya M. Evseeva / Liturgical Drama as a Source of Monreale Mosaics 67
Alexei Lidov / Spatial Icons. A Hierotopic Approach to Byzantine Art History 85
PART II: INTERPRETATIONS
Andreas Rhoby / On the Interaction of Word and Image in Byzantium: The Case of the Epigrams on the Florence Reliquary 101
Tassos Papacostas / Byzantine Rite in a Gothic Setting: Aspects of Cultural Appropriation in Late Medieval Cyprus 117
Piotr Ł. Grotowski / Defining the Byzantine Saint – Creating a Message in Orthodox Art 133
Angeliki Lymberopoulou / Fourteenth-century Regional Cretan Church Decoration: the Case of the Painter Pagomenos and his Clientele 159
Maja Kominko / Constantine’s Eastern Looks: The Elevation of the Cross in a Medieval Syriac Lectionary 177
PART III: DISCOVERIES
Maja Petrinec / Metal Objects of Byzantine Origin in Medieval Graves from Croatia 197
Kristina Lavysh / Finds of Byzantine Glass and Ceramics on the Territory of Belarus: Well-Known and New Facts 213
Mirosław P. Kruk / On some Objects in the National Museum in Krakow and Question of their Origin: Athos or other Monasteries? 231
Nils Stadje / Die byzantinische und osmanische Keramik von Agios Elias und Palaiochori Zaverdas auf der Plaghia-Halbinsel in Nordwestgriechenland. Ein Vorbericht 251
PART IV:CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDIES ON BYZANTINE ART – PAST AND FUTURE
Waldemar Deluga / Die Lemberger Forschung zur Kunst der orthodoxen Kirche 267
Michał Janocha, Serge Averintsev / Byzantinologie dans la perspective humaniste 283
Anna Michalowska, Matthew Savage, Daniel Terkl / DiFaB - Digital Research Archive for Byzantium 293
