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On Byzantine Painting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Wladimir Weidlé

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Except for scholarly works dealing with well-defined problems, writings on Byzantine art rarely fail to arouse in the reader some disquiet, some perplexity, regarding the aggregate of this art—its distinctive characteristics and essential values. The following remarks, confined to painting, are designed solely to clarify the foregoing statement, to indicate why it is justifiable, and to retrace, if possible, the genesis of such a state of affairs.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 6 , Issue 24 , December 1958 , pp. 82 - 93
Copyright
Copyright © 1958 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

Bibliographic Notes

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Otto Demus' two books to which we have alluded are Byzantine Mosaic Decorations (London: Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1948) and Die Mosaiken von S. Marco in Venedig (Baden near Vienna: Rohrer, 1935).Google Scholar
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G. de Francovich's book, Problemi della pittura e della scultura preromanica is part of a collection, “I Problemi dell'Europa post-carolinga,” published in 1955 at Spoleto by the Settimane di Studio del Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo.Google Scholar
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