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At the beginning stages of the “School of Gramos”. The frescoes of the church of transfiguration (Shen Sotiri) in Tremisht, South Albania (1560) [PDF]
Zograf, 2022 The murals of the single-aisle timber-roofed basilica of the Transfiguration (Shen Sotiri) in Tremisht (Permet, southern Albania) date from 1560. Several features, such as the Theotokos Blachernitissa, the Passion cycle, the courtiers’ hats and ...
Vitaliotis Ioannis, Palushi Ahilino
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Byzantine seals in the Tunay Demran Collection [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2021 The Collection of Tunay Demran, officially registered in the Manisa Archaeological Museum, contains seven seals, six of lead and one of silver, and one blank. Manisa, the Byzantine Magnesia Anelios on Mount Sipylos, with its fertile lowland and strategic
Werner Seibt, Ceren Ünal
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Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2021 There are various interpretations on the functions of bone finger distaffs, which are among the important artifacts produced in the ancient world. Some scholars argue that finger distaffs were a symbol of fidelity and virtue and presented to women as ...
Ceren Ünal, Zeynep Çakmakçı
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TRALLEIS COSMETIC AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS: PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATION
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2022 In Late Antiquity, the ancient city of Tralleis was one of the important centres of Western Anatolia. The importance of Tralleis is supported by the richness of the finds unearthed during the excavations in the ancient city, as well as the information ...
Ceren Ünal, Nurettin Öztürk
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Ecclesiastical Economies: The Integration of Sacred and Maritime Topographies of Late Antique Cyprus
Religions, 2021 This article focusses on the relationship of the church with productive landscapes and coastal topographies within numerous Cypriot contexts of the 4th–8th centuries.
Catherine T. Keane
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Byzantine exhibitions in the Russian Museum: 1898—1928
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2021 This article focuses on the exhibition history of collections of the Christian Antiquities Section (1898—1914), the Antiquarium (1914—1918), the Old Russian Art Section (1918—1925) and the First Section of the Art Department of the Russian Museum (1925 ...
Tuminskaya, O.A.
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The Meaning of the Snake in the Ancient Greek World
Arts, 2020 Despite playing no meaningful practical role in the lives of the ancient Greeks, snakes are ubiquitous in their material culture and literary accounts, in particular in narratives which emphasise their role of guardian animals.
Diana Rodríguez Pérez
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‘Byzantium in Brno: joining an Eastern and Western Middle Ages’. Review of: Byzantium or democracy? Kondakov’s legacy in emigration: the Institutum Kondakovianum and Andre Grabar, 1925-1952 [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2021 This book writes the history of a short-lived attempt to create in Prague a home for Byzantine art historians and historians exiled from Russia after the 1917 Revolution. Named after the distinguished Russian art historian, N. P.
Robert Nelson
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Российский журнал истории Церкви, 2021 The article deals with Apocalypse cycle of cloisonné enamels created in the early 2000-s by Russian and Greek artist Nilolaos Masteropoulos. The article analyses the concept of this creation, conceived as an actual art work made by medieval tool ...
Yu. N. Buzykina
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Classicisation or representation? Mimesis in Byzantine pictorial arts as a derivative of style [PDF]
Zograf, 2013 The idea of mimesis in art theory has been neglected by Byzantine scholars. Reasons for this may lie in the fact that the understanding of the term in Byzantium was very complex and that it changed over time.
Grotowski Piotr Ł.
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