Description
Book SynopsisEssays on the chronology and interpretation of the Byzantine mosaics of Thessaloniki.
Thessaloniki contains the finest collection of surviving Byzantine mosaics in any one city. Made over the course of a millennium between the fourth and the fourteenth century, they show the dynamism and longevity of the medium throughout the life of the Byzantine Empire. Yet despite the quantity and quality of the mosaics in Thessaloniki, they have remained relatively unknown compared with the mosaics elsewhere in Greece and in Constantinople.
Controversy and debate have surrounded the dating, function and meaning of many of the monuments and their mosaics. These issues, of the chronology of the monuments and the meanings of their mosaics, form the focus of The Mosaics of Thessaloniki Revisited.
Also published by Kapon Editions: Mosaics of Thessaloniki, 4th–14th century (2012) documents and illustrates the huge range of Thessaloniki’s mosaics that are now accessible and visible to all, however distant or hidden their locations in each church.
Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS
ABBREVIATIONS
Chairman’s foreword A.P. LEVENTIS
Note from the Ephor IOANNIS O. KANONIDIS
Introduction ANTONY EASTMOND
The mosaics of Thessaloniki: the state of research BEAT BRENK
Considerations on the chronology of the Rotunda mosaics HJALMAR TORP
Colour, light and luminosity in the Rotunda mosaics BENTE KIILERICH
Peacocks, rainbows and handsome men: perceiving physical beauty in the early Byzantine mosaics of Thessaloniki MYRTO HATZAKI
Ezekiel’s Vision in Late Antiquity: The case of the mosaic of Moni Latomou, Thessaloniki LAURA NASRALLAH
The mosaics of the basilica of St Demetrios CHARALAMBOS BAKIRTZIS
After iconoclasm — forwards or backwards? ROBIN CORMACK
The mosaics of the church of the Holy Apostles. Byzantine mosaics in the fourteenth century LIZ JAMES
The Byzantine mosaics of Thessaloniki in the nineteenth century DIMITRA KOTOULA
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
