Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art

Benjamin Anderson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2017
Yale University Press (Verlag)
9780300219166 (ISBN)

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In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states—the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visual continuity, though local meanings of these images varied greatly. Benjamin Anderson uses thrones, tables, mantles, frescoes, and manuscripts to show how cosmological motifs informed relationships between individuals, especially the ruling elite, and communities, demonstrating how domestic and global politics informed the production and reception of these depictions. The first book to consider such imagery across the dramatically diverse cultures of Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic Middle East, Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art illuminates the distinctions between the cosmological art of these three cultural spheres, and reasserts the centrality of astronomical imagery to the study of art history.

Benjamin Anderson is associate professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.03.2017
Zusatzinfo	67 color + 10 b-w illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	203 x 254 mm
Gewicht	975 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9780300219166 / 9780300219166
Zustand	Neuware