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Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium: Art and Culture 330 - 1453

Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium: Art and Culture 330 - 1453

James, Liz

Paperback

Series: Variorum Collected Studies

Art HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1032612754
ISBN13: 9781032612751
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James's interests.

The first section deals with light and colour and mosaics: four articles considering light and colour in mosaics and the making of mosaics, as well as the question of what it means to define mosaics as 'Byzantine' are reprinted. The second brings together four pieces on empresses: their relationships with female personifications and the Mother of God; their roles in founding and refounding buildings; and their employment as ciphers by some authors. Finally, seven papers cover a range of topics: what monumental images of saints in churches might have been for; what the differences between relics and icons might have been; how captions to images can be misleading; why touch was an important sense; how words can sometimes 'just' be decorative rather than for reading; why the materiality of objects makes a difference. There is also a brief section of additional notes and comments which add to, update and reflect on each piece now in 2024.

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