Cantone, Valentina The Problem of the Eastern Influences on Byzantine Art during the Macedonian Renaissance: Some Illuminated Manuscripts from the National Library of Greece and the National Library of Venice

Title The Problem of the Eastern Influences on Byzantine Art during the Macedonian Renaissance: Some Illuminated Manuscripts from the National Library of Greece and the National Library of Venice
Author email valentina.cantone@unipd.it
About author Cantone, Valentina. The Problem of the Eastern Influences on Byzantine Art during the Macedonian Renaissance: Some Illuminated Manuscripts from the National Library of Greece and the National Library of Venice. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art : Collection of articles. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg State University. — St. Petersburg, 2011 — P. 33–38.
In the section Medieval Art of the Eastern Christian World
Year 2011 Volume 1 Pages 33–38
Type of article RAR Index UDK 7.033.2 Index BBK 85.103
Abstract

The ornamentation of a group of Byzantine manuscripts from Constantinople datable to a period between the end of the 9th and the first quarter of the 11th c. can give us new elements in clarifying the problem of the relationship between Byzantine and Islamic Art during the Macedonian Period. The success of such decorations in Byzantine Art is attested also in Greek architecture, mosaics and frescoes, jewellery, architectural ceramics and tissues demonstrating the variety of forms of pseudo-cufic elements and the role of Byzantine craftsmen in developing the exotic suggestions.
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Reference Cantone, Valentina. The Problem of the Eastern Influences on Byzantine Art during the Macedonian Renaissance: Some Illuminated Manuscripts from the National Library of Greece and the National Library of Venice. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 1. Eds: Svetlana V. Maltseva, Ekaterina Yu. Stanyukovich-Denisova. St. Petersburg, NP-Print Publ., 2011, pp. 33–38. ISSN 2312-2129.
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