medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Christopher,
The situation with Crusader sculpture is very different from that of
Crusader painting, both icons and illuminated manuscripts.
Jim
Christopher Crockett wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> From: Dr Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> 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
>
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