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Cross-Cultural Reception In The Absence Of Texts: The Islamic Appropriation Of A Middle Byzantine Rosette Casket, Alicia Walker Jan 2008

Cross-Cultural Reception In The Absence Of Texts: The Islamic Appropriation Of A Middle Byzantine Rosette Casket, Alicia Walker

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

The reception of art and architecture in the Middle Ages is typically studied through the verbal accounts of medieval viewers. This paper explores possibilities for interpreting artistic reception in the absence of texts, through the material record of works of art themselves, specifically, a Byzantine ivory casket altered through the addition of Islamic gilded bronze fixtures. I propose that the transformation of the box expresses a viewer’s cognitive appropriation of the original program, which reconfigured the iconography of the ivory container to accommodate a secular Islamic system of meaning. Rather than representing the changes as misreading or disfigurement of the …


Review Of The Origins Of Medieval Architecture: Building In Europe, A.D. 600-900, By Charles B. Mcclendon, Dale Kinney Jan 2008

Review Of The Origins Of Medieval Architecture: Building In Europe, A.D. 600-900, By Charles B. Mcclendon, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Meaningful Mingling: Classicizing Imagery And Islamicizing Script In A Byzantine Bowl, Alicia Walker Jan 2008

Meaningful Mingling: Classicizing Imagery And Islamicizing Script In A Byzantine Bowl, Alicia Walker

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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The Triconch Sanctuaries Of Sohag, Dale Kinney Jan 2008

The Triconch Sanctuaries Of Sohag, Dale Kinney

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First-Generation Diptychs In The Discourse Of Visual Culture, Dale Kinney Jan 2008

First-Generation Diptychs In The Discourse Of Visual Culture, Dale Kinney

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