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Byzantine Art: Works
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The exhibition and an accompanying catalogue grew out of a graduate seminar taught at Harvard University by Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art. To develop the project, Kalavrezou and three of her graduate students, Alicia Walker, Elizabeth Gittings, and Molly Fulghum Heintz, worked for more than two years researching the Byzantine collections at Harvard and at other North American museums. Each of the students served as Andrew W. Mellon interns, a position awarded by the Harvard University Art Museums and funded by the Mellon Foundation for the express purpose of fostering research and teaching between the Art Museums and university departments. The internship program provides new opportunities for students to collaborate with conservators, curators, and faculty from the Art Museums and greater Harvard community, and illustrates the Art Museums' role as a catalyst for creating opportunities for inter-departmental collaboration and study.
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There are a growing amount of Byzantine art and Byzantine related images on the Internet. Sites which specialise in such images are listed on the Links to Other Sites page. The intent here in the Gallery is to present available images under topical "exhibitions". This will take some time to do, and at the moment the page is very much "under construction". Beware that a few of the indicated connections may not work.
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Enamel, ivory, and metalwork objects of Byzantine workmanship were highly prized throughout the Middle Ages; many such works are found in the treasuries of Western churches. Most of these objects were reliquaries or devotional panels, although an important series of ivory caskets with pagan subjects has ... been preserved. Byzantine silks, the manufacture of which was a state monopoly, were also eagerly sought and treasured as goods of utmost luxury.
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Glass making techniques were refined to a fine art, and with the addition of gold to the mix, richly luminous stained glass was used to produce the famous Byzantine mosaics - works of outstanding beauty. Byzantine art moved away from the three-dimensional sculptures of Roman times to painting on flat surfaces. Byzantine paintings mainly depicted forms of humans and angels, and were usually religious in context.
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This course discusses the interaction of art and text in Byzantine culture. It will look at the ways in which works of art were described by the Byzantines and consider these in the context of Byzantine art as it survives. It will be concerned with both Byzantine aesthetics and with the nature of textual description: what are the conventions and constraints of the latter in the context of the former?
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