Title: Viewing Greece : cultural and political agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean /
Authors: Gerstel, Sharon E. J.
Year: 2016
Subjects: Art, Byzantine History Congresses.; Art, Byzantine History Exhibitions.; Byzantine Empire Civilization Congresses.; Byzantine Empire Civilization Exhibitions.
Abstract: "The essays in this volume derive from a series of events that took place in conjunction with the exhibitions in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. These conferences, classes, and lectures, in which a number of prominent Greek and American scholars participated, expanded the scope of the exhibition and invited listeners to consider new approaches to the study of Byzantine Greece"--Page 7.
Contents: Introduction / Sharon E. J. Gerstel -- Poetry and Painting in the Middle Byzantine Period: A Bilateral Icon from Kastoria and the Stavrotheotokia of Joseph the Hymnographer / Fr. Maximos Constas -- Reflections on the Medium of the Miraculous / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- Heaven on Earth: Neoplatonism in the Churches of Greece / Henry Maguire -- A New Look at the Early Christian Mosaic Pavement from Thebes / Eugenia Gerousi-Bendermacher -- Between Heaven and Earth: Views of Byzantine Thessaloniki / Anastassios C. Antonaras and Sharon E. J. Gerstel -- “The Joy of the Most Holy Mother of God the Hodegetria the one in Constantinople”: Revisiting the Famous Representation at the Blacherna Monastery, Arta / Maria G. Parani -- Approaching Monemvasia and Mystras from the Outside: The View from Kastania / Michalis Kappas -- Between the Garden and the Island: Mirror Images and Imaginative Geographies of Greece in Thomaso Porcacchi’s L’isole più famose del mondo, 1572 / Veronica della Dora -- The Venetian Loggia: Representation, Exchange, and Identity in Venice’s Colonial Empire / Patricia Fortini Brown -- From Crusade to Colossus: Rhodes in the Early Modern European Visual Imagination / Sean E. Roberts -- Notes on the Presentation of Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections at the National Gallery of Art / Susan MacMillan Arensberg -- Heaven and Earth at the Getty Villa / Mary Louse Hart -- Curating Exhibitions of Byzantium and Lessons to be Learned / Robin Cormack.