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This long-awaited work is an excellent study of a key monument in Byzantine art and culture. 1 The core of the book consists of eight discrete but tightly linked chapters. All parts of the church are meticulously discussed as complex visual wholes. An illuminating introduction maps out for the reader the methodology of the approach. 2 It also sheds light on the historical and social/political circumstances in the empire of Trebizond and its rival empires of Nicaea and Epirus during the thirteenth century when the church of St Sophia was built. The conclusion succinctly summarizes the results of the authors research, broadening the discussion to include Trepizond as a vital component of thirteenth-century Byzantium and inviting similar or antithetical readings of artistic production in the contemporary empire of Nicaea. The church of St Sophia at Trebizond does not offer a straightforward narrative. The architecture, the sculpture (both ornamental and figurative) and -to a lesser degree -the wall-paintings of the church reflect a deep fusion of multiple cultures (the Byzantine/Greek, the Armenian, the Seljuqid/Islamic, the Georgian and the Laz). Consideration of contexts clearly rev

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Author

Dimitra Kotoula

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2007

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)