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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 10 List of Abbreviations 20 Introduction: Byzantium through its Art 22 Part I: Exhibiting Byzantium 26 1. Learning lessons: from the Mother of God to Byzantium 330–1453 28 2. ‘Of What is Past, or Passing, or To Come’ 40 3. Two Scenes from the Prehistory of the Byzantine Blockbuster 54 4. Exhibiting Byzantium: Edinburgh 1958 and London 2008 70 Part II: Object Lessons 90 5. Gospel Decoration and its Relation to Artistic and Doctrinal Trends of the Middle-Byzantine Period: A Study with Reference to the Marciana Book Covers 92 6. The Stepmum and the Servant: The Stepson and the Sacred Vessel 100 7. The Vienna ‘Empress’ Ivory and its Companion in Florence: Crowned in Different Glories? 120 8. Representing Decline and Fall: Nineteenth-century Responses to the Asclepius–Hygieia and Clementinus Ivory Diptychs 136 9. The Complexity of the Iconography of the Bilateral Icon with the Virgin Hodegetria and the Man of Sorrows, Kastoria 150 10. The Last Wonderful Thing: The Icon of the Heavenly Ladder on Mount Sinai 160 11. The Date of Two Icons from Sinai 170 12. The Nestorian Discos in the Light of Apocryphal Texts and Ar

Published

2019

Language

EN