... essay, 'Tales of Two Cities: The Patronage of Early Palaeologan Art and Architecture... more ... essay, 'Tales of Two Cities: The Patronage of Early Palaeologan Art and Architecture in Constantinople and Thessaloniki', Manuel Panselinos ... less than what it had been during the reign of the previous emperor, much less those of the Middle or Early Byzantine periods, and ...
Details of the garments of the saints in the vaults of the outer narthex of the fourteenth-centur... more Details of the garments of the saints in the vaults of the outer narthex of the fourteenth-century church of the Chora in Constantinople resemble contemporary aristocratic fashion and associate the heavenly and earthly courts. SS. George and Demetrios flanking the entrance to the nave, though among the most popular in Byzantium, were also important to the reigning Palaiologan dynasty and to the current emperor, Andronikos II, and his prime minister, Theodore Metochites, the patron of the church. St. Andronikos, third in the saintly hierarchy, never enjoyed such prominence in any other church and may be interpreted as a reference to the emperor himself. Located next to a scene of the Holy Family's Enrollment for Taxation, St. Andronikos lends heavenly approval to the necessary, but controversial, fiscal policies of the patron and is an integral part of a decorative program that is simultaneously religious and political.
My essay explores the ways that art historians use images and words to inform their publics, base... more My essay explores the ways that art historians use images and words to inform their publics, based mainly on evidence from the United States. The performative aspects of lectures with photographic slides are studied from versions available on the internet. With the profession's change to digital images and Powerpoint, the larger aspects of oral presentations remained the same, but the possibility of multiple images and texts on Powerpoint slide greatly increased the amount of information imparted, but image quality declined. No longer tied to physical slides, the art historian could prepare anywhere and with Zoom lecture from anywhere, but the result was a decline in the shared community of the slide collection and physical interaction with audiences. Moreover, digital lectures imitated cinema in ways different from early slide lectures. As a teaching took, virtual reality can function without a lecturer, or if used in class, the teacher can not longer control what the class sees in when. It also changes the relation of audiences to images, for now spectators inhabit the image with results that once more recall cinema.
Little-studied frescoes of high quality at the Duomo in Genoa are attributed to a Byzantine paint... more Little-studied frescoes of high quality at the Duomo in Genoa are attributed to a Byzantine painter and to a period of renovation at the cathedral about 1310. Their style compares favorably with the finest work of Constantinople, and their iconography is substantially Byzantine in detail. But as a whole, the content of the Last Judgment is Italian, chiefly Tuscan, and derives from theological concerns of Western Christianity that were not shared with Byzantium. Such a hybrid is characteristically Genoese, from a period when Byzantine artists traveled widely.
Michael Camille, a brilliant and imaginative art historian, forty-four years old, died of a brain... more Michael Camille, a brilliant and imaginative art historian, forty-four years old, died of a brain tumor in April 2002. He was the Mary L. Block Professor at the University of Chicago, where he had taught since 1985. The author of six books and dozens of articles, Camille specialized in the history of Gothic art in England and France. Working between the latest critical theory and specialized scholarship on the Middle Ages, he succeeded in making his subjects appeal to diverse audiences, witness the translation of his books into Spanish, French, Japanese, and Korean and invitations to be interviewed on radio programs in Britain and the United States, one of which can still be heard ("This American Life," Episode 38, October 11, 1996, at www.thislife.org). As a scholar, Camille was innovative, if controversial, and above all productive. To highlight that productivity, and because much of his tremendous output has appeared in occasional volumes and out-of-the-way places, we append a comprehensive bibliography of his writings, prepared by one of his students, Kerry Boeye. As we review some of the highpoints in the oeuvre, we also offer an appreciation of a valued and much missed colleague for those who did not have the pleasure of his company. Born in Keighley in Yorkshire, Michael attended the local grammar school, where a beloved teacher, Audrey Collingham, inspired his interest in art and encouraged his scholarly aspirations. He was said to have been the first student from his school in fifty years to make it to "Oxbridge." Admitted to Cambridge University, he studied English, then History of Art, working on medieval art with George Henderson and, informally, on critical theory with Norman Bryson, an important influence. His tutor at Peterhouse, Martin Golding, remembers that Camille "was from a working-class home where there were no books: he once told me that the first night he was in College he said to himself, 'I'm in a town full of books, and I want to read them all!'" Awarded a first class degree in 1980, Michael completed his Cambridge Ph.D. in 1985.
Book Preface Excerpt: In October 1984, the Department of Art of the University of Chicago organiz... more Book Preface Excerpt: In October 1984, the Department of Art of the University of Chicago organized a symposium in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright\u27s Robie house, a landmark building on the university\u27s campus. Eight of the papers that were presented on that occasion have been revised and are published here; each of these offers fresh insight into Wright\u27s achievement, particularly the relation of his professional practice and personal philosophy to nature. Taken together, these papers provide a provocative interpretation of Wright\u27s originality and present a reevaluation of his work in relation to that of his predecessors and his contemporaries, architects as well as writers.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_flwbooks/1180/thumbnail.jp
... essay, 'Tales of Two Cities: The Patronage of Early Palaeologan Art and Architecture... more ... essay, 'Tales of Two Cities: The Patronage of Early Palaeologan Art and Architecture in Constantinople and Thessaloniki', Manuel Panselinos ... less than what it had been during the reign of the previous emperor, much less those of the Middle or Early Byzantine periods, and ...
Details of the garments of the saints in the vaults of the outer narthex of the fourteenth-centur... more Details of the garments of the saints in the vaults of the outer narthex of the fourteenth-century church of the Chora in Constantinople resemble contemporary aristocratic fashion and associate the heavenly and earthly courts. SS. George and Demetrios flanking the entrance to the nave, though among the most popular in Byzantium, were also important to the reigning Palaiologan dynasty and to the current emperor, Andronikos II, and his prime minister, Theodore Metochites, the patron of the church. St. Andronikos, third in the saintly hierarchy, never enjoyed such prominence in any other church and may be interpreted as a reference to the emperor himself. Located next to a scene of the Holy Family's Enrollment for Taxation, St. Andronikos lends heavenly approval to the necessary, but controversial, fiscal policies of the patron and is an integral part of a decorative program that is simultaneously religious and political.
My essay explores the ways that art historians use images and words to inform their publics, base... more My essay explores the ways that art historians use images and words to inform their publics, based mainly on evidence from the United States. The performative aspects of lectures with photographic slides are studied from versions available on the internet. With the profession's change to digital images and Powerpoint, the larger aspects of oral presentations remained the same, but the possibility of multiple images and texts on Powerpoint slide greatly increased the amount of information imparted, but image quality declined. No longer tied to physical slides, the art historian could prepare anywhere and with Zoom lecture from anywhere, but the result was a decline in the shared community of the slide collection and physical interaction with audiences. Moreover, digital lectures imitated cinema in ways different from early slide lectures. As a teaching took, virtual reality can function without a lecturer, or if used in class, the teacher can not longer control what the class sees in when. It also changes the relation of audiences to images, for now spectators inhabit the image with results that once more recall cinema.
Little-studied frescoes of high quality at the Duomo in Genoa are attributed to a Byzantine paint... more Little-studied frescoes of high quality at the Duomo in Genoa are attributed to a Byzantine painter and to a period of renovation at the cathedral about 1310. Their style compares favorably with the finest work of Constantinople, and their iconography is substantially Byzantine in detail. But as a whole, the content of the Last Judgment is Italian, chiefly Tuscan, and derives from theological concerns of Western Christianity that were not shared with Byzantium. Such a hybrid is characteristically Genoese, from a period when Byzantine artists traveled widely.
Michael Camille, a brilliant and imaginative art historian, forty-four years old, died of a brain... more Michael Camille, a brilliant and imaginative art historian, forty-four years old, died of a brain tumor in April 2002. He was the Mary L. Block Professor at the University of Chicago, where he had taught since 1985. The author of six books and dozens of articles, Camille specialized in the history of Gothic art in England and France. Working between the latest critical theory and specialized scholarship on the Middle Ages, he succeeded in making his subjects appeal to diverse audiences, witness the translation of his books into Spanish, French, Japanese, and Korean and invitations to be interviewed on radio programs in Britain and the United States, one of which can still be heard ("This American Life," Episode 38, October 11, 1996, at www.thislife.org). As a scholar, Camille was innovative, if controversial, and above all productive. To highlight that productivity, and because much of his tremendous output has appeared in occasional volumes and out-of-the-way places, we append a comprehensive bibliography of his writings, prepared by one of his students, Kerry Boeye. As we review some of the highpoints in the oeuvre, we also offer an appreciation of a valued and much missed colleague for those who did not have the pleasure of his company. Born in Keighley in Yorkshire, Michael attended the local grammar school, where a beloved teacher, Audrey Collingham, inspired his interest in art and encouraged his scholarly aspirations. He was said to have been the first student from his school in fifty years to make it to "Oxbridge." Admitted to Cambridge University, he studied English, then History of Art, working on medieval art with George Henderson and, informally, on critical theory with Norman Bryson, an important influence. His tutor at Peterhouse, Martin Golding, remembers that Camille "was from a working-class home where there were no books: he once told me that the first night he was in College he said to himself, 'I'm in a town full of books, and I want to read them all!'" Awarded a first class degree in 1980, Michael completed his Cambridge Ph.D. in 1985.
Book Preface Excerpt: In October 1984, the Department of Art of the University of Chicago organiz... more Book Preface Excerpt: In October 1984, the Department of Art of the University of Chicago organized a symposium in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright\u27s Robie house, a landmark building on the university\u27s campus. Eight of the papers that were presented on that occasion have been revised and are published here; each of these offers fresh insight into Wright\u27s achievement, particularly the relation of his professional practice and personal philosophy to nature. Taken together, these papers provide a provocative interpretation of Wright\u27s originality and present a reevaluation of his work in relation to that of his predecessors and his contemporaries, architects as well as writers.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_flwbooks/1180/thumbnail.jp
The Eloquence of Art: Essays in Honour of Henry Maguire, 2020
For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs n... more For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs no introduction. His publications transformed the way art historians approach medieval art through his insightful integration of rhetoric, poetry and non-canonical objects into the study of Byzantine art. His ground-breaking studies of Byzantine art that consider the natural world, magic, and imperial imagery, among other themes, have re-defined the ways medieval art is interpreted. From notable monuments to small-scale and privately-used objects, Maguire’s work has guided a generation of scholars to new conclusions about the place of art and its function in Byzantium. In this volume, twenty-three of Henry Maguire’s colleagues and friends have contributed papers in his honour, resulting in studies that reflect the broad range of his scholarly interests.
How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignorin... more How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To explore these and other questions, Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin assembled essays from leading scholars about how monuments have functioned throughout the world and how globalization has challenged Western notions of the "monument."
, 'Reflections on connoisseurship and computer vision' 24/BO1 Elvira Bojilova (Villa I Tatti), 'T... more , 'Reflections on connoisseurship and computer vision' 24/BO1 Elvira Bojilova (Villa I Tatti), 'The "value of drawing" and the "method of vision". How formalism and connoisseurship shaped the aesthetic of the sketch 24/EB1 Thomas Ketelsen (Klassik Stiftung, Weimar) in cooperation with Uwe Golle (Klassik Stiftung, Weimar) , 'Digital images and art historical knowledge: Connoisseurship today between "top-down design" and "bottom-up' capabilities"' 24/KG1 Valérie Kobi (Universität Hamburg), 'On spectacles and magnifying glasses: the connoisseur in action' 24/KB1 Historic libraries and the historiography of art. Guest-edited by Jeanne-Marie Musto Jeanne-Marie Musto (Independent), Introduction: 'Historic libraries and the historiography of art': articles arising from sessions held at the
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