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Studies in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval Western Art, Volume 2

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The volumes contain Professor Kitzinger's significant essays on Norman Sicily and other topics such Late Antiquity, medieval Rome, Byzantium, and Anglo-Saxon England. Published here with new prefac...
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Over the past sixty-five years Ernst Kitzinger has been one of the foremost interpreters of the art of Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the medieval West. Beginning with his "influential doctoral dissertation, reprinted here, on early medieval painting in the city of Rome, where western and eastern Byzantine traditions met, one of his principal concerns has been the movement and exchange of artistic ideas and patterns around the Mediterranean. Painting and mosaics have always been central to his enquiry. One focus has been the mosaics of Norman Sicily, on which he has published numerous ground-breaking books and papers.

All of Professor Kitzinger's essays on Norman Sicily are included here. Other areas in which he has made outstanding contributions are the arts of Late Antiquity, with a particular emphasis on floor mosaics, medieval Rome, Byzantium in the early and high Middle Ages, and the arts of Anglo-Saxon England.

These two volumes include all of Professor Kitzinger's major essays, apart from an earlier selection reprinted in 1975. Each has a new preface by Professor Kitzinger, and comes with a comprehensive index.
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Price: £120.00
Pages: 670
Publisher: Pindar Press
Imprint: Pindar Press
Publication Date: 31 December 2003
ISBN: 9781899828449
Format: Hardcover
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ART / History / Medieval, History of art

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Ernst Kitzinger was Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor of the History of Art at Harvard, and one of the foremost interpreters of the art of Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the medieval West.
Preface

Anglo-Saxon: Anglo-Saxon vinescroll ornament

The Sutton Hoo finds: the silver

The Sutton Hoo ship burial: the silver

The coffin-reliquary of Saint Cuthbert

Interlace and icons: Form and function in early Insular art

Medieval West: Römische Malerei vom Beginn des 7. bis zur Mitte des 8. Jahrhunderts

A romanesque capital

The Gregorian reform and the visual arts: A problem of method

Christus und die zwolf Apostel

The Virgin's face: antiquarianism in twelfth-century art

The arts as aspects of a renaissance

Norman Sicily: The mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: An essay on the choice and arrangement of subjects

On the portrait of Roger II in the Martorana in Palermo

Norman Sicily as a source of Byzantine influence on Western art in the twelfth century

The date of Philagathos' homily for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul

Two mosaic ateliers in Palermo in the 1140s

The mosaic fragments in the Torre Pisana of the Royal Palace in Palermo: a preliminary study

The descent of the dove: observations on the mosaic of the Annunciation in the Cappella Palatina in Palermo

The portraits of the Evangelists in the Cappella Palatina in Palermo

A twelfth century sanctuary of the Theotokos: St. Mary of the Admiral in Palermo

La chiesa di S. Maria dell'Ammiraglio a Palermo

Mosaic decoration in Sicily under Roger II and the classical Byzantine system of church decoration

The Son of David: a note on a mosaic in the Capella Palatina in Palermo

The Mandylion at Monreale

Index