medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Dr Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>
>> the Crusaders produced icons strongly inspired by Byzantine ones, largely
it is thought in Acre.
> A good starting point is Jaroslav Folda, "Crusader Art," in The Glory of
Byzantium, ed. H. Evans and W. Wixom, exh. cat. (New York, 1997), pp. 388-401
(or any of Folda's other publications).
i rather thought that's whom you had in mind.
i've found his (admittedly, peripheral) statement that the style of the
Nazareth sculptures demonstrates some "Byzantine influence" to be as
interesting as it is problematical, from a theoretical point of view.
this essay by Folda sounds interesting, but is not available to me:
“Crusader art, a multicultural phenomenon: historiographical reflections,”
in Michel Balard, ed., Autour de la Première Croisade: Actes du Colloque de
la Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (Clermont-Ferrand,
22-25 juin 1995), (Byzantina Sorbonensia, 14), (Paris: Publications de la
Sorbonnne, 1996), pp. 609-615.
though it may merely be a shorter version of his:
“Crusader art in the twelfth century: reflections on Christian
multiculturalism in the Levant,” Mediterranean Historical Review, X, 1995,
pp. 80-91.
>I believe there is also a good section on Crusader icons in Robert S. Nelson
and Kristen M. Collins, Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai (Los
Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006).
mmmmm... not immediately visible among the Contents:
Where God walked and monks pray / Robert S. Nelson --
Early icons of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai / Thomas F.
Mathews --
The Sinai Codex Theodosianus: manuscript as icon / Father Justin Sinaites --
Christian pilgrimage to Sinai until the late fifteenth century / David Jacoby
--
Visual piety and institutional identity at Sinai / Kristen M. Collins
perhaps buried in a discussion of one of the exhibition objects.
in any case, if there is an example of a Crusader Kingdom object *created by a
Western artist* which shows a notable "influence" of "Byzantine style" (beyond
the standard, "background" influence which most 12th c. western figure styles
exhibit by default) i'd be happy to see it.
thanks, Jim.
c
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