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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
Venice, San Marco. General. Fruhmittelalterliche Reminiszenzen in San Marco, Venedig
A Renascence of Early Christian Art in Thirteenth Century Venice
Mosaics and Paintings. Über einige venezianische Mosaiken des 13. Jahrhunderts
Das älteste venezianische Gesellschaftsbild
Der toskanische Inkrustationsstil und Venedig
Das Problem der ältesten Mosaiken von San Marco
Das Paradies von San Marco
Bisanzio e la pittura a mosaico del Ducento a Venezia
Probleme der Restaurierung der Mosaiken von San Marco im XV. und XVI. Jahrhundert
Byzantium and the Mosaics of San Marco
Byzantium and the Mosaics of San Marco: the Late Twelfth Century (two unpublished lectures at the Dumbarton Oaks Symposium of 1978)
Ein Wandgemälde in San Marco, Venedig
San Marco Revisited
Sculpture. Die Reliefikonen der Westfassade von San Marco
Zwei marmorne Altarikonen aus San Marco
Zwei Dogengräber in San Marco, Venedig
Eine Reliefplatte in San Marco
Bisanzio e la scultura del Ducento a Venezia
Der skulpturale Fassadenschmuck des 13. Jahrhunderts
Die Adventusengel von San Marco
Bemerkungen zu Meister Radovan in San Marco
Venice, Torcello, Parenzo, Florence. Studies among the Torcello Mosaics I-III
The Ciborium Mosaics of Parenzo
The Tribuna Mosaics of the Florence Baptistery
Zu den Mosaiken der Hauptapsis von Torcello
Byzantium, Venice and the West. Regensburg, Sizilien und Venedig
Salzburg, Venedig und Aquileja
Ein Madonnenrelief in Seckau
Der "sächsische" Zackenstil und Venedig
Elijah and Alexander
Zum Werk eines venezianischen Malers auf dem Sinai
Venedig und Kärnten
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