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Byzantine Pink: Alexis Gritchenko’s Narrative of Constantinople

open access: yesSanat Tarihi Yıllığı, 2021
Ukrainian artist Alexis Gritchenko (Oleksa Hryshchenko), who lived in Istanbul between November 1919 and April 1921 during the occupation of the Allied forces, opened the Constantinople Bleu et Rose exhibition in Paris in 1923, where he displayed his ...
Emir Alışık
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
wiley   +1 more source

Sir Steven Runciman at Istanbul University: How British Wartime Politics Led to the Establishment of the Byzantine Art History Chair

open access: yesSanat Tarihi Yıllığı, 2022
The historiography of Byzantine art history education in Turkiye is a widely overlooked subject, despite a number of studies that have already been carried out.
Verda Bingöl, Zeynep Kuban Tokgöz
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
wiley   +1 more source

The Fiery Eyes of a Maenad: Origin Determination of Faceted Garnet Eye Inlays in a Roman Bronze Bust From Southern Tyrol

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE GRAFFITI COVERING OF THE NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS AND ITS POLITICO-CULTURAL SYMBOLISM

open access: yesArt is on, 2018
Artistic activity which violates urban space is based on the aesthetics of vandalism; it underscores the emergence of the artist as a guerrilla fighter and a defacer, reminiscent of art practices developed during the historical and the post-war avant ...
Konstantina Drakopoulou
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What makes a market in preindustrial societies? A comparative, spectrum-based analysis of Byzantium and the prehispanic Andes

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Dynamics
This article reconsiders the nature of marketplace exchange in premodern economies by comparing two distinct cases: the monetized system of the Byzantine Empire and the exchange networks of the prehispanic central Andes.
Katerina Ragkou, Christian Mader
doaj   +1 more source

‘What could have been and never was: the intellectual context of Clement Greenberg’s “Byzantine Parallels” [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2018
In its sustained analysis of pre-modern art outside the context of an exhibition, ‘Byzantine Parallels’ is an anomalous text in Clement Greenberg’s published oeuvre.
Jessamine Batario
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Il Neobizantino nelle arti decorative del secondo Ottocento, tra invenzione e tecniche antiche

open access: yesMDCCC 1800, 2013
During the 19th century decorative arts, literature, architecture and other fields of cultural production were inspired by previous ages. Byzantium was rediscovered too, and its art was considered a fashionable style in decorative and figurative arts.
Nebbia, Margherita
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The Shofar and Trumpet in Byzantine Art

open access: yesSanat Tarihi Yıllığı, 2022
The subject of this study involves the shofar and trumpet, instruments used both in liturgical and secular ceremonies, and their reflections in religious art. The article addresses these instruments under certain sub-headings.
Hatice Demir
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