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Breastfeeding in Byzantine icon art

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2012
The Mary Galaktotrophousa is a representation of the Virgin breastfeeding the infant Jesus.The origin of this theme goes back to Antiquity when images of gods feeding humans were considered as an example that should be imitated by human. In the early days of Christianity, the Fathers of the Church recognized on the feature of Mary the ideal exemplary ...
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The Byzantine Arts and Byzantine Literature

2021
Abstract This chapter examines the relationships between literary and visual forms in Byzantium. Both in the Early and in the later Byzantine periods there were clear parallels between the ways that literary and visual compositions were structured, whether through the rhetorical techniques of repetition, variation, and acrostic in Early ...
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Magic and Byzantine Art

2021
Abstract The term magic has been long understood as problematic. Studies of Byzantine magic have rapidly developed over the past several decades, and have come to suggest various ways of understanding the term. Two Early Byzantine amulets, serving as case studies, display conventional linguistic structures, including persuasive analogy ...
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“BYZANTINE” ART IN Post-Byzantine SOUTH Italy?

Common Knowledge, 2012
Art historians have long viewed southern Italy, especially the Salento region in Apulia, as a Byzantine artistic province even centuries after Byzantine rule ended there in c. 1070. The Orthodox monastery of Santa Maria di Cerrate, near Lecce, is widely considered to possess some of the region’s “most Byzantine” paintings (twelfth to fourteenth ...
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Byzantine Art and Perception

2021
Abstract Byzantine art preferred chameleonic materials such as gold, glass, jewels, and variegated marbles with which to make images and shape architectural space. When set in shifting diurnal light and the flicker of candles, the variegated surfaces of the icon and ecclesiastical interiors produced a spectacle of shifting appearances ...
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Byzantine Art and Architecture

2014
Byzantine art and architecture may be defined as the artistic production of the eastern Mediterranean region that developed into an orthodox set of societies after the relocation of the Roman capital to Constantinople in 330 ce. While there is a debate about the use of the term “Roman” for emperors as late as Justinian (r.
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