Late antique and medieval art of the Mediterranean world /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Hoffman, Eva Rose F. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007. |
| Series: | Blackwell anthologies in art history ;
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Acknowledgments to Sources
- Introduction: Remapping the Art of the Mediterranean
- Part I. Late Antiquity: Converging Cultures, Competing Traditions. Pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Sasanian Art
- 1. The Changing Nature of Roman Art and the Art-Historical Problem of Style
- 2. Good and Bad Images from the Synagogue of Dura Europos: Contexts, Subtexts, Intertexts
- 3. Exotic Taste: The Lure of Sasanian Persia
- 4. Dionysiac Motifs
- Part II. Continuities: Tradition and Formation of Cultural Identities
- 5. The Good Life
- 6. Hellenism and Islam
- 7. The Draped Universe of Islam
- Part III. Image and Word: Early Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic Art
- 8. The Beginnings of Biblical Illustration
- 9. Sacred Image, Sacred Power
- 10. The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem
- 11. The Image of the Word: Notes on the Religious Iconography of Islam
- 12. Islam, Iconoclasm, and the Declaration of Doctrine
- Part IV. Local Syncretistic Traditions: Jews, Muslims, and Christians
- 13. Hebrew Book Illumination in the Fatimid Era
- 14. An Icon at Mt. Sinai and Christian Painting in Muslim Egypt during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- Part V. Luxury Arts and the Representation of the Court
- 15. The Cup of San Marco and the "Classical" in Byzantium
- 16. Images of the Court
- 17. But Is It Art?
- Part VI. Expanding Boundaries: Spain, Sicily, Venice, and Beyond
- 18. Pathways of Portability: Islamic and Christian Interchange from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century
- 19. Islam, Christianity, and the Problem of Religious Art
- 20. The Medieval Object-Enigma, and the Problem of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo
- 21. Venice and Islam in the Middle Ages: Some Observations on the Question of Architectural Influence
- Index