1st Edition
The Eloquence of Art Essays in Honour of Henry Maguire
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 redefined 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, 23 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.
Introduction
1. Picturing Thessaloniki Charalambos Bakirtzis
2. An icon of John the Baptist Sarah Bassett
3. Internationalizing Russia’s Byzantine heritage: Medieval enamels and chromolithographic geopolitics Elena N. Boeck
4. Gender and gesture Leslie Brubaker
5. The portrait of a lady Annemarie Weyl Carr
6. The perils of Polyeuktos: On the manifestations of a martyr in Byzantine art, cult and literature Anthony Cutler
7. Hanging by a thread: The death of Judas in early Christian art Felicity Harley
8. Claiming the Cross: Reconsidering the Stavelot triptych Lynn Jones
9. The making of an icon: ‘Christ of the Miracle of the Latomou’ Andrea Olsen Lam
10. Firm flowers in the artifice of transience Eunice Dauterman Maguire
11. Art and efficacy in an icon of St. George Lisa Mahoney
12. Contexts for the Christos Paschon Margaret Mullett
13. The calendar of saints in Hodegon lectionaries Robert S. Nelson
14. Multiple phase churches in Cappadocia Robert Ousterhout
15. Visions of the Passion imagined through the agency of voice and icon Bissera Pentcheva
16. The season of salvation: Images and texts at Li Monaci in Apulia Linda Safran
17. King David narratives, messianic politics and the Dura-Europos synagogue Kära L. Schenk
18. From a conqueror to a legitimate heir: The Byzantine princely family, Gentile Bellini and Mehmed II Fatih Rossitza Schroeder
19. The giraffe that came to Constantinople Nancy Ševcenko
20. The many-eyed archangels in early Byzantine art Brooke Shilling
21. Absence of Nomina Sacra in post-iconoclastic images of Christ and the Virgin: Mosaics of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople Natalia Teteriatnikov
22. Integrated yet segregated: Eastern Islamic art in twelfth-century Byzantium Alicia Walker
23. The Mother of God in the earthly paradise Warren T. Woodfin
Biography
Andrea Olsen Lam teaches art history for Pepperdine University’s campus in Washington, DC. Her current project on the Visitation demonstrates the heretofore overlooked significance of the Virgin Mary’s pregnancy in Byzantine art and ritual. Her other research interests include early medieval art that reflects Jewish–Christian–Muslim interactions and the history of iconoclasms.
Rossitza Schroeder is Associate Professor of art history at St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, NY. Her primary field of research is Byzantine art. Her current project sheds light on the interactions between Byzantine monastic practice and visual representations. She is also writing on Byzantine–Ottoman–Venetian relations as manifested in Gentile Bellini’s 1480 portrait of Sultan Mehmed II.
