Viewing Greece: Cultural and Political Agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages (SVCMA 11)

Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages (SVCMA 11) Viewing Greece: Cultural and Political Agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean S. E. J. Gerstel (ed.) IV+364 p., 6 b/w ill. + 166 colour ill., 216 x 280 mm, 2016 ISBN: 978-2-503-56643-6 Languages: English, Greek Paperback The publication is available. Retail price: EUR 125,00 Multidisciplinary, geographically broad, and diachronic in scope, the papers in this volume consider the cultural and political agency of Greece as part of the late antique world, the Byzantine Empire, and the early modern Mediterranean. Deriving from conferences, workshops, and lectures that took place in conjunction with "Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections," an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Art Institute of Chicago from 2013 to 2015, the thirteen papers in this volume focus on the art, architecture, and topography of medieval and early modern Greece. Multidisciplinary, geographically broad, and diachronic in scope, these papers consider the cultural and political agency of Greece as part of the late antique world, the Byzantine Empire, and the early modern Mediterranean. The Greek lands—spread across island and mainland—are seen as parts of broad trade and political networks, as points of religious dynamism, and as regions that are simultaneously central and peripheral. Cities and workshops, readings of monumental painting, approaches to sacred art, views of architecture and power, and printed images of the landscape are some of the main themes treated by the authors. The volume also includes reflections on the exhibition written by curators and critics. SHARON E. J. GERSTEL is Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. An art historian and archaeologist, her research focuses on the late Byzantine village and on the intersections of art and ritual. She is author of Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Sanctuary (1999) and Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaeology and Ethnography (2015) and has edited numerous books including, most recently, Viewing the Morea: Land and People in the Late Medieval Peloponnese (Washington, DC, 2013). Table of Contents Sharon E. J. Gerstel Introduction Susan MacMillan Arensberg Notes on the Presentation of Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections at the National Gallery of Art Mary Louse Hart Heaven and Earth at the Getty Villa Robin Cormack Curating Exhibitions of Byzantium and Lessons to be Learnt Eugenia Gerousi A New Look at the Early Christian Mosaic Pavement from Thebes Anastassios C. Antonaras and Sharon E. J. Gerstel Between Heaven and Earth: Views of Byzantine Thessaloniki Maria G. Parani “The Joy of the Most Holy Mother of God the Hodegetria the one in Constantinople”: Revisiting the Famous Representation at the Vlacherna Monastery, Arta Michalis Kappas Approaching Monemvasia and Mystras from the Outside: The View from Kastania Henry Maguire Heaven on Earth: Neoplatonism in the Churches of Greece Fr. Maximos Constas Poetry and Painting in the Middle Byzantine Period: A Bilateral Icon from Kastoria and the Stavrotheotokia of Joseph the Hymnographer Annemarie Weyl Carr Reflections on the Medium of the Miraculous Patricia Fortini Brown The Venetian Loggia: Representation, Exchange, and Identity in Venice’s Colonial Empire Sean E. Roberts From Crusade to Colossus: Rhodes in the Early Modern European Visual Imagination Veronica della Dora Between the Garden and the Island: Mirror Images and Imaginative Geographies of Greece in Thomaso Porcacchi’s L’isole più famose del mondo, 1572 Language : English and Greek - codice articolo 012913 Review “Each of these essays in this volume has Hellenic riches to offer (…) Byza. …