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Book SynopsisByzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan, engages with issues of cultural contact and patronage, as well as the transformation and appropriation of Byzantine artistic, theological, and political models, alongside local traditions, across Eastern Europe. The regions of the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathian Mountains, and early modern Russia have been treated in scholarship within limited frameworks or excluded altogether from art historical conversations. This volume encourages different readings of the artistic landscapes of Eastern Europe during the late medieval period, highlighting the cultural and artistic productions of individual centers. These ought to be considered individually and as part of larger networks, thus revealing their shared heritage and indebtedness to artistic and cultural models adopted from elsewhere, and especially from Byzantium. See inside the book.
Trade Review"The significance of this collection and of its constitutive papers is reflected in the comprehensive and methodologically innovative way in which it approaches the given topics, looking at them from a long-term perspective, and thus bringing them closer to the modern scholar. The analyzed phenomena are examined from a broad geographical and chronological perspective, which effectively erases the traditional boundaries in the study of medieval art. In other words, this collection looks in an "organic" way at the whole of the analyzed artistic material, unhindered by national frameworks". (translated from Serbian). Andjela Gavrilovic.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan 1 The Allegory of Wisdom in Chrelja’s Tower Seen through Philotheos Kokkinos Justin L. Willson 2 How Byzantine was the Moscow Inauguration of 1498? Alexandra Vukovich 3 Intellectual Relationships between the Byzantine and Serbian Elites during the Palaiologan Era Elias Petrou 4 An Unexpected Image of Diplomacy in a Vatican Panel Marija Mihajlovic-Shipley 5 Byzantine Heritage and Serbian Ruling Ideology in Early 14th-Century Monumental Painting Maria Alessia Rossi 6 Dečani between the Adriatic Littoral and Byzantium Ida Sinkević 7 Triconch Churches Sponsored by Serbian and Wallachian Nobility Jelena Bogdanović 8 Moldavian Art and Architecture between Byzantium and the West Alice Isabella Sullivan 9 The Byzantine Tradition in Wallachian and Moldavian Embroideries Henry David Schilb 10 Rethinking the Veglia Altar Frontal from the Victoria and Albert Museum and Its Patron Danijel Ciković and Iva Jazbec Tomaić Index
