Description
Book SynopsisOver the past sixty-five years Ernst Kitzinger has been one of the foremost interpreters of the art of Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the medieval West. Beginning with his "influential doctoral dissertation, reprinted here, on early medieval painting in the city of Rome, where western and eastern Byzantine traditions met, one of his principal concerns has been the movement and exchange of artistic ideas and patterns around the Mediterranean. Painting and mosaics have always been central to his enquiry. One focus has been the mosaics of Norman Sicily, on which he has published numerous ground-breaking books and papers.
All of Professor Kitzinger's essays on Norman Sicily are included here. Other areas in which he has made outstanding contributions are the arts of Late Antiquity, with a particular emphasis on floor mosaics, medieval Rome, Byzantium in the early and high Middle Ages, and the arts of Anglo-Saxon England.
These two volumes include all of Professor Kitzinger's major essays, apart from an earlier selection reprinted in 1975. Each has a new preface by Professor Kitzinger, and comes with a comprehensive index.
Table of ContentsPreface
Anglo-Saxon: Anglo-Saxon vinescroll ornament
The Sutton Hoo finds: the silver
The Sutton Hoo ship burial: the silver
The coffin-reliquary of Saint Cuthbert
Interlace and icons: Form and function in early Insular art
Medieval West: Römische Malerei vom Beginn des 7. bis zur Mitte des 8. Jahrhunderts
A romanesque capital
The Gregorian reform and the visual arts: A problem of method
Christus und die zwolf Apostel
The Virgin's face: antiquarianism in twelfth-century art
The arts as aspects of a renaissance
Norman Sicily: The mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: An essay on the choice and arrangement of subjects
On the portrait of Roger II in the Martorana in Palermo
Norman Sicily as a source of Byzantine influence on Western art in the twelfth century
The date of Philagathos' homily for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul
Two mosaic ateliers in Palermo in the 1140s
The mosaic fragments in the Torre Pisana of the Royal Palace in Palermo: a preliminary study
The descent of the dove: observations on the mosaic of the Annunciation in the Cappella Palatina in Palermo
The portraits of the Evangelists in the Cappella Palatina in Palermo
A twelfth century sanctuary of the Theotokos: St. Mary of the Admiral in Palermo
La chiesa di S. Maria dell'Ammiraglio a Palermo
Mosaic decoration in Sicily under Roger II and the classical Byzantine system of church decoration
The Son of David: a note on a mosaic in the Capella Palatina in Palermo
The Mandylion at Monreale
Index
