For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs no introduction. His publications transformed the way art historians approach medieval art through his insightful integration of rhetoric, poetry and non-canonical objects into the study of Byzantine art. His ground-breaking studies of Byzantine art that consider the natural world, magic and imperial imagery, among other themes, have redefined the ways medieval art is interpreted. From notable monuments to small-scale and privately used objects, Maguire’s work has guided a generation of scholars to new conclusions about the place of art and its function in Byzantium. In this volume, 23 of Henry Maguire’s colleagues and friends have contributed papers in his honour, resulting in studies that reflect the broad range of his scholarly interests.
Author(s): Andrea Olsen Lam, Rossitza Schroeder
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 474
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Preface
Henry Maguire’s publications
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Introduction
1. Picturing Thessaloniki
2. An icon of John the Baptist
3. Internationalizing Russia’s Byzantine heritage: medieval enamels and chromolithographic geopolitics
4. Gender and gesture in Byzantine images
5. Portrait of a lady
6. The perils of Polyeuktos: on the manifestations of a martyr in Byzantine art, cult and literature
7. Hanging by a thread: the death of Judas in early Christian art
8. Claiming the Cross: reconsidering the Stavelot Triptych
9. The making of an icon: ‘Christ of the Miracle of the Latomou’
10. Firm flowers in the artifice of transience
11. Art and efficacy in an icon of St George
12. Contexts for the Christos Paschon
13. The calendar of saints in Hodegon lectionaries
14. Multiple phase churches in Cappadocia
15. Visions of the Passion imagined through the agency of voice and icon
16. The season of salvation: images and texts at Li Monaci in Apulia
17. King David narratives, messianic politics and the Dura-Europos Synagogue
18. From a conqueror to a legitimate heir: the Byzantine princely family, Gentile Bellini and Mehmed II Fatih
19. The giraffe that came to Constantinople
20. The many-eyed archangels in early Byzantine art
21. Absence of nomina sacra in post-iconoclastic images of Christ and the Virgin: mosaics of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople
22. Integrated yet segregated: eastern Islamic art in twelfth-century Byzantium
23. The Mother of God in the earthly paradise
Index
