Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte 8-2021
Imaginum orbis. Bilderwelten zwischen Spätantike und Byzanz. Festschrift anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags von Johannes G. Deckers
Edited by Markos Giannoulis Edited by Markus Löx Edited by Alexis Oepen
Hardback (Published)
(January 2022)
ISBN: 9783954905188
6.69 x 9.49 inches
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This book is a commemorative publication on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Johannes G. Deckers, former professor of Byzantine art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. The volume brings together a total of 18 contributions by colleagues from Germany and abroad. The majority of the essays come from one of Johannes Deckers’ favourite, diverse fields of research in IMAGINUM ORBIS. These late antique and Byzantine worlds of images sometimes appear surprisingly familiar to the modern viewer, sometimes inaccessible and difficult to understand. Syntax and grammar of this pictorial language, i.e. its rules and the deviations from them, are the special interest of this volume. Therefore, there is a focus on individual studies of images, from the depiction of a Parthian, whose iconography ultimately influenced that of the early-Christian magicians, to the handling of destroyed images in the Middle East and Byzantine book illumination. In addition to fundamental considerations on the geographical origin of early Christian pictorial programmes (in Rome or on the periphery of the Roman empire), internationally recognised experts present partly unpublished and virtually unknown images and pictorial media that contribute to a better understanding of the imaginum orbis. Since Johannes G. Deckers does not approach the late antique and Byzantine period exclusively with the methods of image studies, a section on the “world beyond images” rounds off the anthology. In addition to a geographical breadth that ranges from spectacular a find from Bavaria to a contribution on the Holy Land to gifts from distant Armenia, the temporal dimension of the excerpts, which range from the era of Constantine the Great to the time of Venetian rule over Crete, also reflects the broad interests of the jubilarian.
This book is a commemorative publication on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Johannes G. Deckers, former professor of Byzantine art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. The volume brings together a total of 18 contributions by colleagues from Germany and abroad. The majority of the essays come from one of Johannes Deckers’ favourite, diverse fields of research in IMAGINUM ORBIS. These late antique and Byzantine worlds of images sometimes appear surprisingly familiar to the modern viewer, sometimes inaccessible and difficult to understand. Syntax and grammar of this pictorial language, i.e. its rules and the deviations from them, are the special interest of this volume. Therefore, there is a focus on individual studies of images, from the depiction of a Parthian, whose iconography ultimately influenced that of the early-Christian magicians, to the handling of destroyed images in the Middle East and Byzantine book illumination. In addition to fundamental considerations on the geographical origin of early Christian pictorial programmes (in Rome or on the periphery of the Roman empire), internationally recognised experts present partly unpublished and virtually unknown images and pictorial media that contribute to a better understanding of the imaginum orbis. Since Johannes G. Deckers does not approach the late antique and Byzantine period exclusively with the methods of image studies, a section on the “world beyond images” rounds off the anthology. In addition to a geographical breadth that ranges from spectacular a find from Bavaria to a contribution on the Holy Land to gifts from distant Armenia, the temporal dimension of the excerpts, which range from the era of Constantine the Great to the time of Venetian rule over Crete, also reflects the broad interests of the jubilarian.
- Edited by Markos Giannoulis
- Edited by Markus Löx
- Edited by Alexis Oepen
Other Titles in this Series
Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte
The Spoliated Past: Heritage, Antiquarianism, and Byzantine Material Culture Across Time and Space
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Mitteilungen zur spätantiken Archäologie und byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte
Akten des Symposiums »Austausch diplomatischer Geschenke in Spätantike und Byzanz« in München vom 28. Februar bis 1. März 2002
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