Date : 2019
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
Langue / Language : français / French
ISBN : 978-2-503-57803-3
EAN : 9782503578033
Archéologie -- Chypre -- 1191-1489
Collection : Studies in the visual cultures of the Middle Ages / series editor, Kathryn A. Smith / Turnhout : Brepols , 2008-
Résumé / Abstract : La 4ème de couverture indique : "From a Byzantine province to an independent Latin kingdom under the Lusignan dynasty (11929/27–1474/89) and a colonial outpost of the Venetian maritime empire (1474/89–1571), the island of Cyprus, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, is blessed with a rich and diverse medieval cultural heritage. Its monumental art and its material culture – architecture, fresco and icon painting, woodcarving, metalwork, glazed ceramics, and so on – exist at the crossroads of several artistic traditions often thought to represent mutually exclusive visual languages, such as the late medieval Gothic and Byzantine styles (in their respective variants), the local art of the Levant, and the classicizing mode of the Italian Renaissance. It is precisely this seemingly ‘composite’ nature of medieval Cypriot artistic production that, over the years, has both divided and united scholars attempting to match styles and forms to the patronage of the various religious, ethnic, and linguistic groups (Latins, Greeks, Syrians, Armenians, and others) making up the island’s complex social fabric."