Movement and Creation

doi:10.1017/9781108684620.007

Six - Movement and Creation

A Reassessment of Early Byzantine Visual Culture

from II - Images, Objects, Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2024

Elizabeth S. Bolman

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Elizabeth S. Bolman ,

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson and

Jack Tannous

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Elizabeth S. Bolman: Affiliation:
Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson: Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma
Jack Tannous: Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey

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This chapter explores the complex networks and varied kinds of movement of people, ideas and objects that shaped artistic creativity in the early Byzantine empire. As part of a historiographic review, centers of cultural production, ethnicity, identity, style, and decorum are considered. Decades of largely futile attempts to locate the places of production of portable luxury media, especially silver, are presented. High-quality styles can be illusionistic, but can also be based on very different criteria. A more complex and nuanced model for understanding the process of creation is proposed. This chapter concludes with some remarks about Egypt’s significance in the empire, and what the visual record tells us about the distribution of artistic creativity.

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Byzantine art Egypt silver artistic practice circulation of ideas concepts art historiography of art

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Information: Worlds of Byzantium
Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East
, pp. 122 - 179

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