Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek and Slavic Traditions

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Author: Maria Alessia Rossi, Alice Isabella Sullivan (eds.)This title investigates the prismatic heritage and eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe between the 14th and 17 th centuries, while challenging the temporal and geographical parameters of the study of medieval, Byzantine, post-Byzantine, and early-modern art. The comparative framework of this volume provides a holistic view of visual culture by addressing issues of appropriation while putting on the global map of art history the eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe. Contact and interchange between primarily the Latin, Greek, and Slavic cultural spheres resulted in local assimilations of select elements that reshaped the artistic landscapes of regions of the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathian Mountains and further north. The specificities of each region, and, in modern times, politics and nationalistic approaches, have reinforced the tendency to treat them separately, preventing scholars from questioning whether the visual output could be considered as an expression of a shared history. ISBN 9783110693164. Birkhauser Verlag. hb. 521 pages. 3 b/w, 96 colour ills. 24 x 17 cm.available Show more