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Schemata: The Language Of The Body In Middle Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Nava Streiter

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Representations of body language add a vital layer of meaning to middle Byzantine figural art, and they deserve systematic scholarly attention. My dissertation offers a method for unpicking the meanings of individual movements, and, more importantly, it explores the underlying cultural concerns that shaped the form of the body in middle Byzantine art. I argue that Byzantine images of body language are intentionally schematic and programmatic. By combining a restricted vocabulary of motion with pared-down renderings of physical forms, Byzantine artists engaged the vital force of embodied expression, while also transfiguring the body into a metaphoric representation of disembodied ideas …

The Art Of Burial In The Medieval Nile Valley: Christian And Islamic Interchange In Religious Funerary Contexts, Arielle Winnik

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Christian communities in medieval Islamic Egypt (ca. ninth to twelfth centuries) were active participants in Islamicate visual culture. Indeed, Christians employed the same artistic objects as their Muslim neighbors in secular contexts, and close commonalities were even pervasive in art employed in religious rituals.

This dissertation investigates one such instance of the shared use of objects between Christians and Muslims in distinct sacred contexts. Christian and Muslim burials shared deep similarities, including the use of burial shrouds and grave markers with almost identical iconographic and compositional features. I draw attention to ways that Christians deployed an interreligious visual and material …

Review Of Leonora Neville, Byzantine Gender, Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2019, Alicia Walker

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Liturgy, Space, And Community In The Basilica Julii (Santa Maria In Trastevere), Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

The Basilica Julii (also known as titulus Callisti and later as Santa Maria in Trastevere) provides a case study of the physical and social conditions in which early Christian liturgies 'rewired' their participants. This paper demonstrates that liturgical transformation was a two-way process, in which liturgy was the object as well as the agent of change. Three essential factors - the liturgy of the Eucharist, the space of the early Christian basilica, and the local Christian community - are described as they existed in Rome from the fourth through the ninth centuries. The essay then takes up the specific case …

The Medieval Pottery, Camilla Mackay

Library Staff Research and Scholarship

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Review: Paolo De Matteis: Neapolitan Painting And Cultural History In Baroque Europe By Livio Pestilli, David Cast

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Book Review: The Lupa Romana: An Antique Monument Falls From Her Pedestal, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Encounter: Leonard Boyle, O.P., Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Spoliation In Medieval Rome, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Romanità A Roma: Le Basiliche Del Xii Secolo Fra Tradizioni E Innovazioni, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

The “Romanness” (romanitas) of the cathedral portico in Civita Castellana is obvious, but within Rome the criteria of “Romanness” are not so clear. This article takes the architecture of twelfth-century churches as a case in point. Scholars generally agree that romanitas is retrospective and evocative of local tradition, but many of the signature features of these churches – bell towers, marble cloisters, Ionic trabeated porches, marble altar ciboria, paschal candlestands, the “schola cantorum” – were eleventh- or twelfth-century innovations, some- times imported from elsewhere. It is proposed that these features were “invented traditions” as defined by Eric Hobsbawm, which create …

The Discourse Of Columns, 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

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Bearers Of Meaning, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Virgo Lactans And Virgines Fatuae: The Façade Mosaic Of S. Maria In Trastevere In Rome, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Protomaiolica In Frankish Athens, In Mark Lawall Et Al., "Notes From The Tins: Research In The Stoa Of Attalos, Summer 1999", Camilla Mackay

Library Staff Research and Scholarship

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The Iconography Of The Ivory Diptych Nicomachorum-Symmachorum, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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