The mock turtle's tears: ersatz enamel and the hierarchy of media in Pseudo-Kodinos
| Autor: | Warren T. Woodfin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cultural Studies
Linguistics and Language History Hierarchy Painting 060102 archaeology Literature and Literary Theory Enamel paint media_common.quotation_subject Prestige Empire 06 humanities and the arts Art Anatomy Ancient history 060401 art practice history & theory Language and Linguistics visual_art visual_art.visual_art_medium 0601 history and archaeology 0604 arts Byzantine architecture Period (music) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 41:55-80 |
| ISSN: | 1749-625X 0307-0131 |
| Popis: | The enormous prestige accorded to Byzantine cloisonné enamel seems to have continued into the Palaiologan period, although evidence suggests that its production ceased in the decades after the Fourth Crusade. The medium of the imperial images described by Pseudo-Kodinos as ὑπὸ ὑελίου λεγομένου διαγελάστου, which was worn on the headgear of thirteen ranks of court officials, is here identified asverre églomisé, reverse painting on glass. A reading of Pseudo-Kodinos’ treatise alongside surviving works of art suggests that fourteenth-century Byzantines were consciously using ersatz media in an effort to keep up the appearance of continuity with the empire's more prosperous past. |
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