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Mechanisms of Exchange: Transmission in Medieval Art and Architecture of the Mediterranean, ca. 1000-1500
Author(s): Heather Grossman (Editor), Alicia Walker
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: May 2, 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 332 pages
- ISBN-10: 900424977X
- ISBN-13: 9789004249776
Book Description
Featuring eight innovative studies by prominent scholars of medieval art and architecture, this special issue of Medieval Encounters examines the specific means by which art and architectural forms, techniques, and ideas were transmitted throughout the medieval world (ca. 1000-1500). While focusing on the Mediterranean region, the collection also includes essays that expand this geographic zone into a cultural and artistic one by demonstrating contact with near and distant neighbors, thereby allowing an expanded understanding of the interconnectedness of the medieval world. The studies are united by a focus on the specific mechanisms that enabled artistic and architectural interaction, as well as the individuals who facilitated these transmissions. Authors also consider the effects and collaboration of portable and monumental arts in the creation of intercultural artistic traditions.
Contributors are: Justine Andrews, Maria Georgopoulou, Ludovico Geymonat, Heather E. Grossman, Eva Hoffman, Melanie Michailidis, Renata Holod, Scott Redford and Alicia Walker.
Contributors are: Justine Andrews, Maria Georgopoulou, Ludovico Geymonat, Heather E. Grossman, Eva Hoffman, Melanie Michailidis, Renata Holod, Scott Redford and Alicia Walker.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“An insightful and innovative collection of articles, Mechanisms of Exchange offers scholars in the fields of art and architectural history a new methodological approach to Mediterranean material culture… a mature contribution towards opening dialogue between the fields of art and architectural history and to the methodology of Mediterranean material culture.”
Johan MacKechnie, in: Al-Masaq 29 (2017).
Johan MacKechnie, in: Al-Masaq 29 (2017).
About the Author
Heather E. Grossman is Assistant Professor of medieval architectural and art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her book, Architecture and Interaction in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean: Building Identity in the Medieval Morea is forthcoming from Ashgate.
Alicia Walker is Assistant Professor of medieval art and architectural history at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Alicia Walker is Assistant Professor of medieval art and architectural history at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
