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Book SynopsisProfessor Otto Demus's work on Byzantine art represents one of the great original contributions to the subject made in this century. His early studies in the 1930s on the "mosaics of Greece were followed by his fundamental work on the mosaics of Norman Sicily after the Second World War, and the later great studies of the decoration of San Marco in Venice, which remained throughout his abiding concern.
These two volumes make available the papers Otto Demus published in a variety of periodicals in the course of a long and highly productive working lifetime. They have been edited and revised by Dr. Irmgard Hutter, a pupil and friend of the author. Volume I includes Demus's papers on Byzantine art in general, including his outstanding "contribution to the study of the development of Palaeologan art. His interest in the working methods of the artists is also evident. The volume includes most of his papers on Byzantine mosaics, mural painting, icons, enamels and manuscript illumination.
Volume II deals with the author's lifelong interest, the mosaics of the church of San Marco in Venice. The papers reproduced here cover the history and decoration of this great monument, including the sculpture. The influence of the San Marco mosaics and Byzantine art on the art of western Europe is also covered.
Table of ContentsPreface by Irmgard Hutter
The Role of Byzantine Art in Europe. Die Rolle der byzantinischen Kunst in Europa
Vorbildqualität und Lehrfunktion der byzantinischen Kunst
The Making of Byzantine Art. The Methods of the Byzantine Artist
Gebundenheit und Freiheit in der byzantinischen Kunst
Graphische Elemente in der spätantiken Plastik
Schablonen - ein "Ruckzieher"
Epochs of Byzantine and Western Painting. Die Entstehung des Paläologenstils in der Malerei
Die Malerei des 11.-12. Jahrhunderts in Mazedonien
European Wall Painting around 1200
Mosaics and Wall Paintings. Ravenna und die mittelalterliche Kunst Italiens
Zu den Apsismosaiken von Sant'Apollinare in Classe
Zu den Fresken von Aynali Magara
Probleme byzantinischer Kuppel-Darstellungen
"The Sleepless Watcher". Ein Erklärungsversuch
Zur Datierung der Apsismosaiken der Hagia Sophia in Thessalonike
Icons and Mosaic Icons. Eine Anastasis Ikone vom Balkan
An Unknown Mosaic Icon of the Palaeologan Epoch
Byzantinische Mosaikminiaturen. Zur Charakteristik einer späten Kunstgattung
Zwei Konstantinopler Marienikonen des 13. Jahrhunderts
Two Palaeologan Mosaic Icons in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection
Eine griechische Grundungsikone
Manuscripts. Studien zur byzantinischen Buchmalerei des 13. Jahrhunderts
Die Farbe in der byzantinischen Buchmalerei
Bemerkungen zum Physiologus von Smyrna
Byzantine Enamels. Zur Pala d'Oro
Die Byzantinischen Emails im Salesianerinnenkloster in Wien
Western Enamels. Neue Funde an dem Emails des Nikolaus von Verdun in Klosterneuburg
Nicola da Verdun
Zu Nikolaus von Verdun
Zu zwei Darstellungen der Geburt Christi am Klosterneuburger Ambo
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