Relics, Prayer, and Politics in Medieval Venetia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relics, Prayer, and Politics in Medieval Venetia write by Thomas E. A. Dale. This book was released on 1997. Relics, Prayer, and Politics in Medieval Venetia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Against a historical backdrop of relic theft and propaganda campaigns waged by two cities vying for patriarchal authority in medieval Venetia, Thomas Dale shows how Romanesque mural painting shaped sacred space and institutional identity. His focus is on the late twelfth-century murals in the crypt of Aquileia Cathedral. The crypt, which contains the relics of Aquileia's founding bishop, Saint Hermagoras, has a historical significance rooted in a legend identifying the saint as a direct disciple of Saint Mark the Evangelist. On this basis, the Carolingians promoted the city's status as patriarchal see of Venetia--a claim that prompted Venice to steal Mark's relics from Alexandria, Egypt, and appropriate Aquileia's history. This book, the first English-language study of the crypt, explores how the paintings complement the relics of Hermagoras in their distinct devotional and political roles. Hermagoras's intercessory power is activated by his orant image displayed over the central aisle within a larger hierarchy of apostles, martyrs, and bishops. The surrounding hagiographic cycle justifies in legalistic fashion Aquileia's patriarchal title and the consecration of the city as locus sanctus of Venetia by the blood of its martyrs. The iconic images in the eastern lunettes present the Virgin's compassio as a pictorial model for the vicarious experience of Christ's Passion. Finally, a fictive curtain over the socle presents allegories of spiritual warfare in the form of exempla from crusades, pilgrimage, and the epic poem Psychomachia, which Dale analyzes as a gloss on the main program.
Myths of Venice
Myths of Venice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myths of Venice write by David Rosand. This book was released on 2012-09-01. Myths of Venice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance. Never conquered and taking its enduring independence as a sign of divine favor, free of civil strife and proud of its internal stability, Venice broadcast the image of itself as the Most Serene Republic, an ideal state whose ruling patriciate were selflessly devoted to the commonweal. All this has come to be known as the "myth of Venice." Exploring the imagery developed in Venice to represent the legends of its origins and legitimacy, David Rosand reveals how artists such as Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Tintoretto, and Veronese gave enduring visual form to the myths of Venice. He argues that Venice, more than any other political entity of the early modern period, shaped the visual imagination of political thought. This visualization of political ideals, and its reciprocal effect on the civic imagination, is the larger theme of the book.
Alexandria, Real and Imagined
Alexandria, Real and Imagined - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alexandria, Real and Imagined write by Anthony Hirst. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Alexandria, Real and Imagined available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsiders and by inhabitants of the city. In this volume of new essays, Alexandria and its many images - the real and the imagined - are illuminated from a rich variety of perspectives. These range from art history to epidemiology, from social and cultural analysis to re-readings of Cavafy and Callimachus, from the impressions of foreign visitors to the evidence of police records, from the constructions of Alexandria in Durrell and Forster to those in the twentieth-century Arabic novel.
Experiencing Medieval Art
Experiencing Medieval Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experiencing Medieval Art write by Herbert L. Kessler. This book was released on 2019. Experiencing Medieval Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler authors a love song to medieval art inviting students, teachers, and professional medievalists to experience the wondrous, complex art of the Middle Ages.
San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice
San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice write by Henry Maguire. This book was released on 2010. San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Henry Maguire, emeritus professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University, works on Byzantine and related cultures. He has written extensively on Venetian art and the church of San Marco.
