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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2014
      30 April 2012
      ISBN:
      9780511791895
      9781107004771
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791895
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 215 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 288 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, Classical Art and Architecture
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    Classical Studies, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, Classical Art and Architecture
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    Byzantine imperial imagery is commonly perceived as a static system. In contrast to this common portrayal, this book draws attention to its openness and responsiveness to other artistic traditions. Through a close examination of significant objects and monuments created over a 350-year period, from the ninth to the thirteenth century, Alicia Walker shows how the visual articulation of Byzantine imperial power not only maintained a visual vocabulary inherited from Greco-Roman antiquity and the Judeo-Christian tradition, but also innovated on these artistic precedents by incorporating styles and forms from contemporary foreign cultures, specifically the Sasanian, Chinese and Islamic worlds. In addition to art and architecture, this book explores historical accounts and literary works as well as records of ceremonial practices, thereby demonstrating how texts, ritual and images operated as integrated agents of imperial power. Walker offers new ways to think about cross-cultural interaction in the Middle Ages and explores the diverse ways in which imperial images employed foreign elements in order to express particularly Byzantine meanings.

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    "In the most stimulating book on Byzantine art to be published in a long time, Walker(Bryn Mawr College) scrutinizes five objects, or clusters of objects, under the headings "Emulation," "Appropriation," "Parity," 'Expropriation," and "Incomparability."
    -- A. Cutler, Choice

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