1st Edition
Byzantium From the Inside Out The Art of Incomprehensibility
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction to an incomprehensible empire
Chapter 2: Reverse perspective: how Byzantine art looks at itself
Chapter 3: The holy inscrutability of the gold backdrop
Chapter 4: Your personal worm: the story of the soil
Chapter 5: The empire of sighs: Byzantium and the breath of regret
Chapter 6: Apophatic grammar: the exegetical artefact from nothing
Chapter 7: Beating yourself up in Byzantium: a history of contrition and heartbreak
Chapter 8: The name Byzantium
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Index
Biography
Robert Nelson is a Principal Honorary Fellow at Melbourne University, Australia. He trained in art history at La Trobe University with an MA in baroque art and PhD in Hellenistic art. Robert taught in Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University in Australia, where he became Associate Dean Research & Graduate Studies. His most recent scholarly books are A history of inspiration (2022) and A visceral history of bread: from First-Nations Australia to Byzantium, museum of innocence (2023). Robert was art critic for The Age and the scene painter for Polixeni Papapetrou.
