Art, Power, and Patronage in the Principality of Epirus, 1204-1318

ISBN-13: 9780367410674 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 268 str.

Leonela Fundic

Opis

This book explores a corpus of Epirote architecture, frescoes, sculpture, and inscriptions from the early thirteenth to the early fourteenth century within a comparative and interdisciplinary framework, focusing on the nexus of art, patronage, and political ideology.

Spis treści

Introduction / Chapter 1. Artistic Production and Patronage in Epirus during the Thirteenth and the Beginning of the Fourteenth Centuries / Chapter 2. Art, the Memory of Constantinople, and the Formation of the Epirote Political Identity After 1204 / Chapter 3. Catastrophe and the Revival of Epirus: Art and Political Ideology after the Battle at Klokotnitsa in 1230 / Chapter 4. Epirus between the Palaiologoi and the Angevins during the Reign of Nikephoros Komnenos Doukas (1267/8–1297) / Chapter 5. Art and Patronage in the Principality of Epirus after 1296 / Conclusion / Catalogue of Iconographic Programmes in Epirote Churches