"This scholarly work fundamentally changes the way we think about the monastic church of Vezelay and its sculptures. He considers how these works intersect with various aspects of monastic culture, from poetry to a sign language used during observed periods of silence. From th…
"This scholarly work fundamentally changes the way we think about the monastic church of Vezelay and its sculptures. He considers how these works intersect with various aspects of monastic culture, from poetry to a sign language used during observed periods of silence. From th…
Late Byzantine sculpture
by Melvani
fromStudies in the visual cultures of the Middle Ages
This book provides a detailed description and interpretation of multiple aspects of sculpture from late Byzantine monuments. Although individual monuments of the late Byzantine period have been exhaustively published and analyzed, the role of their sculptural decoration is usual…
Erstmals wird im vorliegenden Band der Gesamtbestand dieser an antiken Formen orientierten Skulptur des elften Jahrhunderts am Jakobsweg betrachtet, die einen neuen Erfahrungs- und Handlungsraum eröffnete.
Most of these papers on architectural sculpture in the Greek world are based on a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, (Athens) and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Athens) held 27-28 November, 2004.